About a mile south of Palnackie, near Dalbeattie. It was built by John Cairns in 1456, after his father, Alexander, took possession of the lands earlier that century. In 1633 it passed to a member of the Maxwell family of Drumcoltran. The ground floor room rectangular inside, and it is vaulted.
Access is by an arched doorway facing west.
There is no internal stair to the hall above, this is entered by the stone fore-stair, through a converted window. The original entrance now provides the hall with a south facing window. The first floor hall, which is round, has a fireplace, a buffet recess and stone seats in one of the two windows. There is a latrine closet at the foot of the turnpike stair, in the thickness of the wall, which once gave access to the two floors above and to the parapet walk, which can still be accessed, via the gabled caphouse. The parapet is carried on individual corbels and is supplied with machicolations, for the dropping of missiles.