It is protected as a category A listed building,[1] and the grounds are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.

On his death in 1810, Kinmount passed to the 6th Marquess of Queensberry, who commissioned a new house from the English architect Sir Robert Smirke.

[2] The Greek Revival house was built between 1813 and 1820, with Smirke's assistant William Burn acting as executant architect.

[1] In 1896, The 9th Marquess of Queensberry sold Kinmount to Edward Brook, a wealthy English industrialist who had bought the adjacent Hoddom Castle estate in the 1870s.

[4] The burial ground contains several sculptured monuments from the late-19th and early-20th centuries, a tall Celtic cross, and is surrounded by a circular iron fence.