Ardchattan priory

This is said to be the second oldest house in Scotland, maybe because it is based on a 13th century settlement for Valliscaulian monks. The house - Ardchattan House - is now privately owned but the gardens are open to the publlc. They have an attractive south facing aspect and are enclosed by a beautiful east wall through which there is a gate to the not very exciting remains of the originally 13th century church or chapel, with later bits, which was part of the priory itself before it became secularised in 1602.