Free entry for National Trust members
This place is cared for by the National Trust for Scotland, a separate charity. Under the INTO reciprocal visiting arrangement, National Trust members from England, Wales and Northern Ireland get free standard entry. Show your current membership card at admissions.
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Standard prices without the optional 10% donation. Free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO reciprocal arrangement, National Trust members.
£4 for non-members
Main car park below the house, £4 per car for non-members, free for National Trust for Scotland members and, under the INTO arrangement, National Trust members. Six Blue Badge bays, an accessible toilet and a bike rack in the car park.
Hill of Tarvit is an Edwardian country house outside Cupar, rebuilt in 1906 by Sir Robert Lorimer for Frederick Sharp, a Dundee jute magnate, to hold his French furniture, Flemish tapestries, Chinese porcelain and Scottish paintings, and the Sharps lived in it for barely forty years before it passed to the National Trust for Scotland in 1949. Lorimer laid out the gardens too, with terraces, yew hedges, borders and a sunken rose garden, and the estate keeps the family's leisure intact: a hickory golf course of 1924 played with period clubs, croquet, putting and lawn bowls, snooker in the house, and a walk to the top of Tarvit Hill for views over Fife. The below-stairs rooms show the laundry, kitchen and servants' quarters. Reviewers praise the volunteers' stories and the cafe scones. Tips from visitors: the house is by guided tour Thursday to Saturday and self-guided on Sundays, closed early in the week; and the grounds and hill are free to walk with dogs on leads.
Mansion open Thursday to Sunday from 7 March to 31 October; closed Monday to Wednesday. Book tours through Eventbrite or on the day.
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Dog friendly
Starts and ends at Hill of Tarvit car park; 1 1/4 miles (1.8km), 40 minutes, easy, 39m ascent, around the outer edge of the golf course through woodland.
