St Mark's School Room

The Old Village School. One large room to use as a dorm, with a kitchen, shower room, off road parking & outside space. This is the old village school which closed in the late 1960s. There are still people living locally who sat through many a lesson in this place. This space gives simple shelter from a hard day of adventure in the glorious Manx sun (or a dry space after some of the purest rain on earth has caught you out - as often happens around here!). You'll have access to whole building (which includes the old schoolroom, the shower-room/WC and kitchen). There is off road parking and the church next door provides an additional quiet space to read a book or listen to the radio. Normally, I'll be around somewhere 'vicaring' in the parish. Unless you want me to call by - or need anything - you'll be left alone to enjoy this quiet corner of the Isle of Man Your own transport is recommended, but parking is available on site. The Airport is under 4 miles away (although the bus stops at Ballasalla (around 2.5 miles away). There is a railway station in Ballasalla which also has the nearest shop and there is also a pub. The building was recently reopened after it was feared that we would need to sell the space. Since October 2014 we have made sure the place is watertight, given the inside a coat of paint, carried out basic maintenance, installed a gas fired boiler (the first ever here!) to give hot water and heating to the kitchen and shower-room and refitted the shower-room. Over the summer of 2015 our work continued and extended the heating system into the main hall (replacing the old electric wall heaters), repaired some of the external joinery and started to give the outside a coat of paint (although the winter weather of 2015 arrived early and we had to put finishing this on hold until the spring arrive in 2016). We're in the early days of clearing the former boys’ playground to create a garden area and are thinking about how we might turn the old boys’ & girls’ toilet block into an art space and storage block.