Around 1540, James Stewart of Doune was made Commendator of Inchcolm Abbey, which is located on an island in the Firth of Forth.

His wife, Margaret Home, had a cabinet room which held a variety of treasures and curiosities, including a miniature bowling game with ivory pins, a painting of a parrot, a loadstone, and telescope bought in London in 1634.

[4] Near the house there was a fountain with a bronze figure of winged Mercury posed on a turtle, possibly the work of Hubert Le Sueur.

[2] McGill also designed the mortuary chapel of the Earls of Moray on the estate, which is dated 1731 and is also category A listed.

Begun by Copthall Holdings, the site was taken over by the Scottish Homes Investment Company and construction continued into the 1970s.