Cottage - Gayle, North Yorkshire

Quirky cottage in lovely location needing major updating. Mill Cottage, on a quiet back lane called the Wynd, in Gayle, near Hawes isn't the prettiest-looking of North Yorkshire hideaways. But there's something about its higgledy-piggedly oddness that's really quite cute.

Set over three floors, Mill Cottage has two bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, a decent-sized lounge and an assorted outbuildings.

You'll want to rip out the kitchen and start again. And while you're at, the damp course might need looking at, you'll need to re-wire, and some proper heating wouldn't go amiss in those piercing Dales winters. But the cottage is in a gorgeous location, in the very pretty hamlet of Gayle, half-a-mile from Hawes, in the centre of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Gayle Beck, the bridge and waterfalls and Gayle Mill are just yards from the door.

It's on the market at offers around £139,000, through J R Hopper & Co.

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Schoolhouse - nr Caernarfon, North Wales

Former schoolhouse with lots of space and potential. The old schoolhouse at Caeathro has been used as workshop and needs the works to turn it into a home - plumbing, wiring, fitting, plastering. turning the scrubby schoolyard into a garden...

But it comes with planning permission in place to turn it into a three-bed house, and there are lots of sumptuous original features to get your Grand Design ideas bubbling. Like original windows, beamed ceilings and a main room that's 37-feet by 18-feet. Have a look at the pictures from the link below - though it's best to focus on the top half of each image!

It's currently split into five rooms, and has off-road parking and the walled and overgrown schoolyard at the back.

Caethro is about two miles from Caernarfon, in Gwynedd, and nine from Banjor.

It's on the market through Carter Jonas, with offers invited around £225,000.

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Schoolhouse, Dalavich, North Argyll

Part-renovated, former schoolhouse with Loch views. It seems a bit unfair to call this a wreck of the week really, given the amount of work that's already gone into renovating The Old Schoolhouse, in Dalavich.

The dirty big stuff has been done - the subsoil dug out, new foundations re-poured, a new roof, new windows, new internal walls to create bigger, open spaces, re-wiring and re-plumbing. But given that, we're still talking about a substantial project to complete the property as a three-bed, two-bath, open-plan living room and large kitchen home. If you take a look at the brochure images from the link below, you'll see that includes finishing off walls, plastering, adding fixtures and fittings for kitchen and bathrooms.

But, it's a good-size, stone-built, one-and-a-half storey detached country property with a decent plot of land and views of Loch Awe from the upper windows. It's in a quiet location, about a mile from the little village of Dalavich and eight miles from Kilchrenan, on Loch Awe - Oban is 27 miles away.

The property is for sale through DM Mackinnon Estaes, at offers over £225,000.

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Chalet - Whitsand Bay, Cornwall

Clifftop chalet, overlooking Whitsand Bay. Don't be put off by the picture and the fact that it looks like, well, a chalet, it's all about location, location, location with this seaside sweetie.
The agents acknowledge that Goodenough (yes - that's its name) would benefit from being taken apart and rebuilt. Helpfully, they even tell you that all the materials needed to rebuild it are already available - in fact there's a list!
But the relatively hefty guide price of £159,995 for a two-bedroomed chalet is about being able to look out onto Whitsand Bay - a three-mile stretch of perfect sand and a designated area of outstanding beauty. We've picked the image of the actual chalet for Wreck Of The Week - so you know what you're buying - but the full detail pictures on R House Estate Agency's website (below) show you just how stunning the location is - despite taking the pictures on a typically British day!
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