[5] He commissioned extensive garden and restoration works around the estate incorporating the Abbey as a partial ruin within the house grounds.

[6] This also included the erection of the nearby Temple of the Muses and the Statue of William Wallace, Bemersyde.

The house was modernised in 1875 by Lord Jerviswoode, Lady Griselle's brother, and remained in the family until 1929 when it was purchased by the Scottish Motor Traction Company.

The Scottish Motor Traction Company added the east wing and launched it as a “Tourist Hotel” in 1932.

In 1997, prior to a further extension of the hotel, an archaeological survey was carried out found sherds of unstratified post-medieval pottery.