A company is seeking permission to carry out renovations to the Point of Ayre lighthouse keeper’s cottage to make it suitable for modern living.

Custom and Classic Limited’s application (19/00796/GB) would see external and internal renovations made to the cottage.

These would include converting an outhouse into a kitchen, reinstating the staircase into the cellar and further internal refurbishments.

The support documents for the application said that the cottage is unoccupied and ’in need of modernisation’.

Custom and Classic Ltd said it wants to make internal changes including switching round a bedroom and a lounge. This is because an existing bedroom is adjacent to where it wants to create the new kitchen.

Following the reinstating of the stairs, the cellar would be utilised as a living room.

The company has made several references in its application to the historical nature of parts of the cottage, which is listed on the buildings register.

Custom and Classic Ltd is planning to retain as much historically important materials and features as possible.

This includes flooring, parts of which have been covered. For example in the current living room, a flagstone floor was covered by laminate wood flooring.

The company wants to remove the laminate flooring and expose the historic flagstones.

This would also be done in the other rooms where laminate floors have been added at a later date.

The company will also retain the doors to the property as they are of historical value.

However, the roof isn’t and could be replaced.

As the building is registered, the application is also subject to application (19/00797/CON).