Welcome to Rufflets, which is one of
the oldest established Country House Hotels in Scotland.
The house was built in 1924 as a private home for Mrs A.B
Gilroy, the widow of a Dundee jute baron, and was designed
by a well known Dundee architect Donald Mills, who also
designed the formal terraced garden to the south of the
house.
This turreted mansion house, set in ten acres of award-winning
gardens, has been privately owned and personally managed
by the Russell family since 1952, when the seven bedroomed
house was converted into a small hotel. In those days country
house hotels were almost unheard of and Rufflets was regarded
as somewhat unique, not just in Fife, but in the whole of
Scotland.
The house has been tastefully extended
over the years and the interior refurbished to match the
exacting standards expected of a small luxury country house.
Service is friendly and personal in the true sense of Scottish
hospitality.