[2] Built in the 17th century, the house was extended in 1844 for Richard Campbell and was designed by David Bryce and William Burn.

In 1861 Colonel David Carrick Robert Carrick-Buchanan JP DL KCB (1825-1904) of the Buchanans of Drumpellier, Lanarkshire[1] acquired the estate.

On 18 November 1869 the Edinburgh Evening Courant reported that An Eye-Witness writes:- About forty years ago, a whale came on shore on the coast of Kintyre, at a small bay near Carradale, measuring 94 feet long.

The jawbones now form a gateway at Carradale House, so high that I think a moderately-heaped hay-cart could easily pass through, though the bones are stuck in the ground sufficiently far to support them.

There are salmon and sea trout, netting rights, and excellent pheasant, grouse, black game, woodcock and snipe shooting.