The Retreat, Church St
Halfway between the Museum and the East Church, this private residence is another of Cromarty’s handsome Georgian villas, notable for what is probably one of Miller’s most horrific folk legends, in which a smuggler accidentally kills his own son in a brawl with customs officers (Scenes and Legends, Chapter XIV). An underground passage once ran under Church Street for the secret transport of smuggled goods like brandy and “hollands” (Dutch gin).