Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Kilcreggan HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial">Entry from Temperance Brae beside the bus stop off Shore Road. Pop up kitchen serving free coffees, tea and homemade scones. Donations welcome. OpeningTime1 11 am to 4 pm OpeningDate1 27/9/2015 IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 13600 Refreshments No Street The street address Argyll Road Postcode G84 0JW 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 The Retreat Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived argyllbute Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 520 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.98568,-4.823828; Description An account of the resource The Retreat is an early Victorian domestic dwelling built around 1860, located on the Rosneath Peninsula within the Victorian burgh of Cove and Kilcreggan. The garden is designed around a dramatic gully with a serpentine path which follows Aidens burn for some 930 feet as it runs out into the Firth of Clyde. The garden is in contrast with the house itself which though small in scale offers pleasing architectural features whilst carrying a unique social history. As the restoration continues the next stage will be the conversion of an outbuilding into an artist’s studio and gallery.