Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Port William HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p>Turn south at the roundabout by Newton Stewart onto A714. Follow signs direction of Port William on B7085. Continue through Whauphill, and after four miles turn left on B7021 signed Whithorn. Take first drive after 200 yards on right.</p><p>Assisted disabled access - steps at entrance.</p> OpeningTime1 10.00-17.00 OpeningDate1 25/9/2011 OpeningTime2 10.00-17.00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 11169 Refreshments No Street The street address 33 Laigh Isle Postcode DG8 9LB Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Monreith House Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1100 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,54.75378,-4.556407; Description An account of the resource <p>Welcome to Monreith House, built in 1798 and having undergone extensive refurbishment. It remains in the hands of the Maxwell family, who acquired the estate by marriage in 1450. The architect was Alexander Stephens, otherwise famous as a building contractor for Robert Adam in Edinburgh New Town. </p><p>The House is complemented by beautiful, original furniture by craftsmen like Gillow and Trotter, and the library collection dates from the 17th century. Visitors will also see estate maps which evoke the grounds as they once were, and the flower paintings of Sir Herbert Maxwell. Perhaps one of the House’s most famous and more recent attributes however, is the inspiration it provided to Gavin Maxwell for his book about an otter, ‘Ring of Bright Water’. </p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1798