[1] It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.
It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60s part of Livingston, Scotland.
Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.
[citation needed] The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's biographer and later son in law.
[5] The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.