Lovely listed weatherboard cottage on Essex waterfront. Number Two Riverside Cottages has two bedrooms and two reception rooms, plus decent gardens - but not a lot else aside from location, location, location.
You would need to add a kitchen and bathroom - even a loo - to make this Victorian holiday home comfortable enough for longer than an overnight stay. But it's a lovely building, with some sweet period features, and around £40k investment will give you a stunning second or main home less than an hour from London.
The cottage is in North Fambridge, on the River Crouch, a regular haunt of sailing types, with moorings, sailing club, a good country pub and a railway station with a 45-minute direct route into London Liverpool street. Chelmsford is around 30 minutes away, and the A130 ten minutes away.
It's on the market for £130,000, through John D Wood estate agents.
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