The house is protected as a category A listed building,[1] while the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.

The architecture of these works, completed around 1782, has been attributed to both James Nisbet and to John Baxter Jr.[1] In 1815 further changes were begun by General Robert Balfour, to designs by the architect Richard Crichton.

Meanwhile, General Balfour's two brothers were developing new houses at Whittingehame in East Lothian and Newton Don in the Borders, funded by the same large inheritance.

[1] The plant collection was expanded from the mid-19th century with seeds sent from India by George Balfour, a friend of botanist William Hooker.

[2] The house was sold on to a private owner who redeveloped it as a 30-bedroom hotel, opened in 1990 by Malcolm Rifkind who was then Secretary of State for Scotland.