Built in 1740 for William Duff of Braco the house has had a varied career after the Earls of Fife moved out in 1903. It was used during the war as a camp and PoW camp and badly damaged by a bomb 1940. It later became a Hotel and santatorium. In 1956 is passed into the care of the state and in 1995 became part of the National Galleries of Scotland.
