Buildings

The most ancient house is believed to be the Peaton House. Next come the disused oatmeal mill at Campsail, the house opposite the graveyard at Clachan, and the ferry cottage at Kilcreggan. The buildings on the various farms formed in many cases a miniature village.

The first villa built in Cove was Craigrownie Cottage in 1826 for a man who occupied one of the farms, by two masons from Helensburgh. The work was stopped for over two months by extreme drought, during which time the breadth and breeziness of their stories of personal adventure attracted notice. About twenty years later, Glendhu, at Kilcreggan, was built and shortly afterwards the intrusion of villadom went on apace.