There is a shop with a bookstall, laundry, and payphone, On the public floor is a spacious sitting and dining rooms, two oak-panelled libraries and lecture room. In the grounds there is a Chapel and beyond this is the Elphinstone wing with a games room and craft centre. Carberry is a wonderful place from which to explore Edinburgh and the Lothians.
All visitors are welcome to enjoy the house and grounds.
The present structure, the top of which was used for a fire beacon, dates from about 1480. There was no battle, but Mary surrendered and thus began her long period of captivity. During the next 400 years the Tower was added to and enlarged, and owned by the Johnstones and then the Elphinstone family, the Blairs of Lochwood, the Dicksons and the Fullertons until finally its was bought back by the Elphinstones. The 16th Lord Elphinstone married Mary Bowes-Lyon, sister of Elizabeth the Queen Mother. In 1961 the Elphinstone family gifted Carberry Tower to the Church of Scotland who subsequently sold it to the Carberry Trust, a charitable company in which all the churches of Scotland are represented.