Three Cornish homes with potential

Cornwall. I meant to take you there last week but we took a sideways step. 
I should perhaps point out that, personally, I've never been to Cornwall. Devon yes, and other bits of the far south, but never Cornwall. I did get fish boxes delivered to me from there for quite a few years and I'm a fan of a dollop of Rodda on a scone, so maybe someday soon. 
I have three properties to show you today, all good locations, reasonable price-wise, and great potential. But all with a sadness about them, of time-stopped abandonment; of lonely later lives.
This three bedroom detached house in bustling St Austell sits on a quiet street, on a hill overlooking fields and already renovated neighbouring houses. It has a large garden, a fair bit of privacy for the location, garage and parking.  

Rooms are a good size - two reception rooms, hall, kitchen, utility/pantry and loo downstairs; three bedrooms and bathroom upstairs. 
That damp-trapping external render will need to go, and you'll want to keep the style, if not the reality, of those original metal-frame windows. And of course, there's a whole lost childhood to be cleared away.

On the market with a guide price of £250k through May Whetter and Grose. More details on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.
My second pick is also a three bedroom detached house over looking hills, and also up for £250k.
This one in Cornwall's countryside rather than a town, sitting on the A395 a couple of miles from Davidstow.
Good size garden, garage, parking, and lovely views over fields.

Currently on the market for cash only - drainage issues (to an old cess pit) means the house isn't yet mortgageable. And moving the downstairs bathroom upstairs might lose you a bedroom, but you could also look to ditch the garage and extend sideways. 

Anyway, that downstairs bathroom probably meant the house (and hats) owner got to live here longer.
On the market through Cole Rayment and White at £250k. More pictures, video and details on the agent's site here and on Righmove here.
Which brings us to my left-field property. A four-bedroom, Grade II-listed, mid-terrace house at Perranarworthal, between Truro and Falmouth, with cobbled courtyard and a barn. For £185k.

It's on the busy A39, parking will be an issue - particularly for the works needed, but it is a pretty extraordinary building. Except ...

I'm sorry, but how many cats does one person need??!! 
On the market through Lodge and Thomas at £185k. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.

For the cat ladies... : )

Two coastal do-ups - £700k apart in price

So this week's post had been due to go in a different direction - Cornwall, I'd been thinking. But then my daughter dropped this Robin Hood's Bay property into the family WhatsApp group. One of those wow! and what if...! moments that is the soul of 'Wreck', and we're back in North Yorkshire. Cornwall can wait.
Ings House is a massive, eight-bedroom, four reception, house with attached double-storey storage/garages and a separate coach house. All stone-built, original floors, windows, fires and all round gorgeous.
Here's some pictures of the downstairs rooms.

Upstairs, there are six bedrooms plus two bathrooms on the first floor and two further bedrooms on the third floor. Some are pretty small and the two bathrooms (one is an ensuite) are a bit poky. You'll want to re-jig and that'll mean reducing bedroom numbers to add ensuites. Perhaps creating three bedroom suites with bathrooms on the first floor and two suites on the second floor, using more of the loft space?

Outside is a large garden, courtyard and parking. Plus that extra coach house. That, plus that double-height storage space to the side of the house offers lots of possibilities for creating an even larger house or, more, likely, splitting it into three separate properties. Which may lie behind the hefty price tag.

The Coach House already has planning approval to turn it into a separate holiday home and next door to you is a rather smart B&B, whose website includes some useful drone shots of its neighbour and both houses' coastal position.
Ings House is on Station Road - the town's main road through and to the sea and down the hill to the older part. That older part is really just for the holidaymakers now; a sort-of Haworth by the sea with streams of visitors trudging down and up again. This house is close enough but far enough away, albeit missing the views perhaps.
On the market through Croft with a guide price of £800k. They're offering two open days for viewings - this Saturday and next. Some additional info and pictures on the agent's website here and on Rightmove here.
Given we've spent so much time with our £800k mansion, I thought I'd take us to the other end of the scale with this cute 1930s detached holiday bungalow just outside Filey for offers around £100k.

This one intrigued me. So much expected information missing.
It's on the edge of the large and popular Primrose Valley holiday park, but isn't owned by them. Your bungalow, your land. But the actual legal position is fuzzy. The agent believes it's freehold (they describe it as 'freehold') but it hasn't been registered with the Land Registry, albeit two of its younger neighbours have. You would need to register it. It would also be worth paying the £14 to see the restrictions attached to one of your neighbours, in case they also apply here.
The agent has set a closing date for offers, but your starting point should be a phonecall to them and questions. Because the other thing that's missing are internal photos. 
Normally, that would stop me adding it to 'Wreck' but they have added a video walk through and, while they spend a LONG time filming the outside of the bungalow and its location (both gorgeous, by the way) they do eventually go inside and it's well, ok - sort-of what you'd expect from an old bungalow  that's been empty a while and north coast weather battered.
There is no inside bathroom - just a shower in the outside toilet block. Two bedrooms, lounge and narrow kitchen. Anyway, I thought I'd add that video because I found myself quite mesmerised by it. 

See what I mean? If you've ever played Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, this video was so there!
No. 2 The Fold, is on the market at around £100k via Nicholsons Property Group - offers by informal tender with a closing date of 19th June. Details on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.