After the Livingstones supported the Jacobite rising of 1715 they forfeited their land and titles.
The architect James Maitland Wardrop altered the property internally and enlarged it to form a Victorian mansion.
[4] The castle was a rectangular building, three storeys and a garret high.
The parapet of the original tower was bridged across a recessed lintel as link to the new wing.
There is a stair tower in the re-entrant angle,[4] round, but corbelled to square above.