Such a friendly, homely house! Wonderful welcome. The guides were full of little stories, which made the place come alive! Plenty of Gainsboroughs etc to admire. Napoleon Room was fascinating Stunning grounds. Dress warmly...the house is right on the shoreline and the wind whips up the waves and it can be very chilly! House itself warm. Sheep and highland cattle roam free in parkland, so drive slowly. If you are lucky you might ass the curly haired pigs! Some B and B available Definitely worth a visit

I was with my dad when we visited, we drove past the highland coos which was not as scary as it seemed, just need to take it slowly. They’re really mellow and cute! We parked up, saw some signs about an office we needed to report to and we were a little hungry so we look for the tea house. Following signs round to the back for the ‘office’ we find the door to the place but a lady opens a high window from the house and asks us what we’re doing. We let her know that we’re just looking for the teahouse, and maybe some leaflets about the area. She tells us we look like tourists, presumably because we’re Asian (a small eye roll moment but okay l, whatever, just a small gripe), and this is private land. So we leave and walk around the front area which is also a golf course. Around the whole place are signs labelling where is private land and where is not. We were simply following signs to the office and not causing any trouble. To be quite honest we were about to leave anyway since we saw the teahouse was closed. The grounds are beautiful but the whole experience was just ruined a little by that moment. I would check on the website if things are open and what’s happening around there before visiting.