Now Category A listed, it was built, in the early 18th century, in foothills overlooking the Holy Loch from its northern shores.

[1] Historic Environment Scotland describes it as one of the most important buildings in the parish, and in a national sense due to its six-bay layout.

[1] Since its original construction, which reused stone from a 16th- or 17th-century building, it was extended to the rear in the 19th century, as well as an early 20th-century addition to its southwestern corner.

The earlier parts of the building are of rubble with sandstone dressing, while the later block is fine ashlar.

Part of the garden was used for the western edge of the cemetery of the adjacent Kilmun Parish Church and Argyll Mausoleum.