Former residence of the Seton's of Seton, Lords Seton, Winton and Winchburgh, Earls of Winton.

The centerpiece of the Seton Family was the Palace of Seton, standing on the same spot on the Seton baronial lands for upwards of eight hundred years, the original castle was a square tower built during the time of Seier de Seton sometime after 1066. 

It was George, 6th Lord Seton, under James V, who was responsible for the re-creation, and Mary de Guise, the French wife of Scotland's King James V, was often present.  Prior to this, the Seton's had been much involved in the affairs of Scotland's Royal Family, having the privilege of their presence on many occasions, over successive generations, with the family's munificent tastes being much sought after by the Scotland's Monarch's as a place of relaxation and refuge.

It was enlarged to become a more commodious residence, with a military character and French styling after the "rough wooing" by England's King Henry VIII, when it then became known as the "Palace of Seton": a magnificent Palatial residence by the 6th Lord Seton and continued by the famed George, 7th Lord Seton, and the 1st and 3rd Earls of Winton.