Situated in Dunfermline's historic Maygate, Abbot House, with its pink walls, is one of its most distinctive buildings. With two floors of display rooms, volunteer guides are available to conduct you through 1000 years of Scottish history. There's also the popular and busy Abbot's Kitchen Cafe, Gift Shop, private hire facilities and our beautiful south-facing garden.
18th-century town house of the Murrays of Broughton and Cally, which was bought in 1901 by E A Hornel, the renowned artist and member of 'The Glasgow Boys'. Between 1901 and 1933 he added an art gallery and a studio overlooking the fascinating garden with Japanese influences, which leads down to the estuary of the Dee.
Finlaystone is a small country estate near Glasgow, seat of the current Chief of the Clan MacMillan. With its spectacular views across the Firth of Clyde, Finlaystone offers colourful gardens, imaginative woodland play areas and tumbling waterfalls. The estate combines history with adventure in a fun day out for the family, where your dog can run freely. Step back in time and uncover its secrets.
Haddo House is proud to be the most homely of the north-east of Scotland's great houses open to the public. Designed by William Adam for the 2nd Earl of Aberdeen in 1732, but refurbished in the 1880s, the House elegantly blends crisp Georgian architecture with sumptuous late Victorian interiors by Wright and Mansfield.
The Hill House is considered to be Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest domestic creation. Sitting high above the Clyde, it is home to original Mackintosh furniture and interior design and also has attractive formal gardens designed recognisably in the Mackintosh style.
Georgian house overlooking the Montrose Basin, designed and built by William Adam in 1730 for David Erskine, Lord Dun. Superb contemporary plasterwork by Joseph Enzer. Lady Augusta Kennedy-Erskine was the daughter of William IV and Mrs Jordan, and the house contains royal mementos of that period and many examples of Lady Augusta's woolwork and embroidery.
Leith Hall is at the centre of a 113 ha (279 a) estate which was the home of the head of the Leith family from 1650. The house contains personal possessions of successive lairds, most of whom followed a tradition of military service. The 2.4 ha (6 a) garden features extensive herbaceous borders and a fine collection of alpines and primulas in the rock garden. There are two ponds and a bird observation hide. Unique 18th-century stables, ice house.
