After the Lighthouse was automated in 1962, the cottage was bought by Gavin Maxwell, who wrote Ring of Bright Water, a touching story about an otter called Mij.
The cottage was owned by one other local family before it was sold to my mother, Paulita Sedgwick, in the late 1980's.
I began the long, slow process of renovating the cottage in 2014 and it was finally ready for public use in the summer of 2019.