[4] It was designed by William Adam in the Scottish baronial style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1745.

[1] At the east end, there was a clock tower with a belfry to which a spire, designed by James Gillespie Graham, was added in the 1831.

[2] In 1930, following the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929, Haddington was reclassified as a small burgh, ceding many of its functions to East Lothian County Council, as the town was not considered large enough to run its own services efficiently.

[7] A plaque, presented by the commanding officer of the 10th Polish Mounted Rifles, part of Polish I Corps, to commemorate the hospitality of the people of Haddington during the unit's stay at Amisfield, was installed on the staircase in the town house in 1942, during the Second World War.

[17] There is also a painting by William Stewart MacGeorge, who was born in Castle Douglas, of a river with trees and a farm.