Bishop Wilsons Cottage

Bishop Wilson's Cottage is an early 17th-century cottage, originally with a dairy and cheese room, and later altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is now a house with an attached outbuilding. The cottage is constructed of coursed red rubble sandstone, with a thatched roof and a brick stack. The outbuilding has a slate roof. The main cottage is a single-story structure with an attic, featuring a four-bay front. Attached at a right angle to the left is a single-story, four-window outbuilding, connected by a single-story, open-sided link bay. The cottage’s front door is wide, boarded, and incorporates a glazed light. A gabled half-dormer with a two-light window sits above the door, and other ground-floor windows are two-light, leaded, horizontal sliding sashes. Another gabled dormer with a similar window is located to the left of the center. The interior retains three cruck trusses along with a ceiling beam exhibiting a large girth ovolo mould and a mast step at one end, along with exposed ceiling joists and an old boarded door. The cottage is notable for being the birthplace and residence of Robert Wilson, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man (consecrated 1697), and founder of the village school, now known as The Old School.