 The monks employed Tony Harmsworth to devise a rescue package which saw the site converted into the largest private heritage centre in Scotland which operated between 1994 and 1998, however the heritage centre failed to generate sufficient profit to maintain the buildings.In 1998 the monks abandoned the site, and it reverted to the Lovat family which in turn sold it to Terry Nutkins.He also owned The Lovat Hotel that stands on the site of the old Kilwhimen Barracks, one of four built in 1718.