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The former home of Cornish stonemason Digory Isbell and his wife Elizabeth. Here the Isbells entertained John Wesley on some of his visits to Cornwall in the mid-18thC. Digory added a two room extension to the cottage for the use ofJohn Wesley and his preachers after reading in his bible of the Shumanite woman who built a prophet's chamber for a man of God. By the 1940's the cottage had become a roofless ruin, but was bought by the Methodist Church, restored andopened to the public in 1950.