Your Holiday Home
Welcome to Wingletang, a beautiful grade 2 listed holiday home on the idyllic Isles of Scilly
8 Bedrooms & Sleeps 10-14 People
Your Holiday Home
About Wingletang
Wingletang is a beautiful, traditional Scillonian cottage set minutes from beaches, cafes, shops and the harbour.
Downstairs there is a large kitchen and laundry room, a spacious dining/living room with a table to seat up to 12 (plus 2 high chairs), a cosy snug with television, and a downstairs toilet. There is also a small patio garden.
Upstairs the house sleeps 10-14 people in 8 bedrooms. There are 2 twin/king rooms, 2 doubles, 3 singles and a bunk bedroom. All the rooms have en-suite facilities, though one of the singles (Ginamoney) and the bunk room (Gimble Porth) share a shower room. There is also room for an extra single in the attic bedroom (Garrison), and room for cots in several bedrooms.
The house is ideal for multi-generational family holidays. We have 2 full-size travel cots with proper mattresses, a bed-guard, 2 highchairs and a comfy recliner armchair.
There is a small self-contained apartment at the back of the house where, for this season, a housekeeper will be living. They have a separate entrance through the garden and won’t have access to the main house during your stay.
Previously Wingletang was a popular guest house, we have made some minor changes to give the house a comfortable homely feel for this season but are planning exciting alterations to be carried out during the winter of 22/23.
My family & the Isles of Scilly
My grandmother, Elizabeth Fabricius, first visited the islands at the end of the war and returned in the 1960s with her husband Roy, my aunt, uncles and my mother Shane - the start of a four-generation love affair with this idyllic collection of islands. In the early 70s my grandparents bought Garrison House and my first visit was in 1979, aged just 4 months old.
My childhood summers on Scilly with my grandparents, parents, brother, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends were perfect and I want these holidays of simple pleasures for my own children now.
Sadly, after my grandparents died, the house was sold, and the family have holidayed in many other properties on the Islands over the last 20 years. Many of Roy and Elizabeth’s 9 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren still return to Scilly most summers. The magic of Scilly brings family back from as far afield as Australia, and some of the family have spent time living and working on the islands.
In the summer of 2020, after 6 months working as a doctor on the ‘front-line’ of the pandemic’s first wave, my husband and I spotted Wingletang Guest House for sale. After excited phone calls to my parents, Adam and Shane, it was agreed that the time was right to fulfil the dream of another home on the islands. We want Wingletang to be a place where large families and groups of friends can relax together and make memories. We feel so lucky to own this beautiful property and look forward to welcoming many more families to fall in love with Scilly and Wingletang.
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