The house was designed by Archibald Simpson[1] and constructed for Lachlan Mackintosh of Raigmore, a merchant who had returned from Calcutta,[2] in about 1810.

The site was requisitioned for military use in June 1940 during the Second World War: the house itself became the officers mess for the headquarters of No.

14 Group was disbanded in 1943, the house became the local headquarters for the Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

[7] In 2016 the filter room bunker was put up for sale by the Highland Regional Council.

Change of use planning permission has been applied for to allow part of the building to be developed as a private museum.