 It was built in 1881-6; and substantially extended from 1906 to 1914, the year of his death.Campbell also designed in similar style the family mansion nearby on Innis Chonain for himself, his artist sister Helen and mother, the elderly Mrs Caroline Campbell of Blythswood, formerly resident in Blythswood House downriver from Glasgow.The heavy oak beams in the cloister are believed to have come from the (then) recently broken up wooden battleships, HMS "Caledonia" and .