 Since 2017 it has been used as a tourist, wedding and film venue.Prior to the early 1700s Dunskey Castle was the main building on the estate; it is now a ruined building and scheduled monument with no public access.The estate was the property of the Hunter-Blair family of Blairquhan in Ayrshire and was acquired when Jane (or Jean) Blair of Dunskey, wife of James Hunter, succeeded her brother to Dunskey estates in 1777.