Duff House

Duff House is a Georgian mansion in Banff, Aberdeenshire, built of ashlar in three storeys on a raised basement. It stands on a square plan with advanced corner towers and forms part of a larger group of Category A listed buildings. The estate includes Fife gates, a walled garden, Collie lodge, a mausoleum, an ice house and two lodges named Eagles Gate and Bridge Gates House.

The house was designed by William Adam between 1735 and 1740 for William Duff, later the first Earl of Fife, but a legal dispute with the architect delayed completion. After the Dukes of Fife left in 1903, the house became a hotel, then a sanatorium, and during the Second World War it served as a prisoner of war camp. In 1995 it joined the National Galleries of Scotland and remains set in much of its original designed landscape.

Inside, Duff House displays fine art by El Greco, Thomas Gainsborough and Henry Raeburn. The Dunimarle Library holds rare books available to view by appointment. The surrounding grounds still reflect the original design, with the addition of a golf course.