 The house was built as an L plan tower before 1589 by George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal on the remainder of a previous construction which is heavily obscured, only just discernible in the massive thickness of the southern ground floor internally.Within the grounds, there is evidence of a Barmekin and earthworks in the adjoining cattle meadow which would indicate a mediaeval or earlier settlement or castleton.George, 5th Earl Marischal, had stood proxy for King James VI during his marriage to Anne of Denmark in August 1589.