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.

Three properties to hide away in

Well, this is turning into quite the week, again. Any of you feeling the need to run away and hide from this new world ordering? Then follow me...
Whittle Dene is a collaborative community living in 10, mostly handbuilt, cabins in the middle of 12 acres of Northumberland wood inhabited by fairies (maybe).
This cabin, Stanhope, was built in 1927 and the cluster of cabins has existed in Whittle Burn Woods since the 1900s. It is a historic site in the middle of ancient woodland, cared for and protected by volunteers and residents. And obviously pretty rare for one of the cabins to come onto the market.
Here's some pictures before we go further.

Stanhope is off-grid to the extent that electricity is provided by its solar panels and back-up generator, heating by log burner, hot water by Calor gas boilers and water is mains fed. So, as long as you don't rock up with your Android or Apple smartphone, you're fairly hidden from those maddening crowds.
Outside are three garden areas with fruit trees, a geo dome that could become a greenhouse, and chicken coop. Boundaries between cabins are "fluid" - an incentive to work your plot.

There are two complications for any of you thinking weekend getaway rather than lifestyle choice - access and lease restrictions.
No car access - it's a walk through the woods. You're buying the leasehold (not freehold) and that has been on a rolling one-year lease for 100 years. The current lease holder is trying to see if that can be changed to a more market-normalised 20 year lease. The lease only allows 51 weeks of the year occupation - you have to spend Boxing Day to New Year's Day somewhere else.
Complications aside, this is a very special cabin in a very special wood offering a pretty exceptional escape to a more nature-led life shared with a handful of like-minded neighbours.

On the market at offers over £125k (leasehold) through GFW, details and more pictures on the agent's website here and on UK Land and Farms site here.
My next pick to show you is a more traditional remote cottage. Cefn Coch is a two-bedroom Welsh cottage surrounded by fields and farms and sitting pretty much on its own on a winding set of lanes.

It has a gated and hedged garden, parking and privacy.

Downstairs is the lounge, kitchen and a bathroom/shower room. Upstairs are two bedrooms.
It's not big, but there's space to extend and if you were able to buy up part of the neighbouring fields you'd have a pretty good size smallholding.

The nearest village (Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant) is couple of miles away, the nearest town (Oswestry) about 10 miles.
The downside is the cottage is up for online auction with a Buyer Premium of 5%. Which means that whatever you 'win' the house for at auction, you'll pay an extra 5% on top of that price to the estate agent. Plus all your other legal fees, renovation costs etc.
You already know I'm not a fan of UK agents' rush to auction properties - it basically means the buyer pays their own costs and the costs the seller would normally have paid. Often more.

Cefn Coch is up for auction on 25th February with a guide price of £150k through Town and Country Properties. Details and more pictures on the agent's site here and on Rightmove here.

And my last property to show you is definitely, definitely not my usual pick. Not even sure it counts as a property.
Here is the 30 acre island of Eilean Mor, in Loch Sunart in the Scottish Highlands.

It's uninhabited. Access is by boat or over the causeway at low tide.
There is no planning permission in place (yet?) and the island sits within the Sunart Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Sunart Special Area of Conservation (SAC) - which means dealing with Nature Scot and the umbrella body the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
But it is a whole, and a wholly beautiful, island for sale.
On the market at offers over £275k through Bell Ingram. Details and more pictures on the agents site here.

Three detached homes in less popular areas

Let's travel North, and remind ourselves that there are still (some) bargains to be found in the lesser-known and therefore less popular areas of property UK.

Starting with two large Scottish manses within three miles of each other, in Dumfries and Galloway.

Laigh House, in Wigtown, is up for auction on June 16th. The C-Listed house has six bedrooms, three reception rooms, kitchen, shower downstairs and bathroom upstairs, and sits in around 0.9 acres of land, including a walled orchard, and with views over Wigtown Bay.

And if that wasn't enough to wake up your renovation mojo, how about I chip in some pictures of its mid-century solicitor's office deco?

Some works have been done - new gutters, partially-re-slated roof (presumably forced by those wet  patches in several rooms) but the bones of this house are quite lovely and, assuming the auction itself doesn't go all silly money, there is massive potential here. 

The location is ok - better out back than out front, but those views will be pretty spectacular on a misty morning.

On the market through Online Property Auctions Scotland with a guide price (i.e. likely minimum) of £350k. Details and more pictures here and here.

A couple of miles away, in the village of Kirkinner, the Church of Scotland is selling off this lovely, B-Listed manse.

Six-ish bedrooms (albeit bathroom is downstairs), three reception rooms, kitchen and large utility room. The manse is surrounded by enclosed gardens and a bunch of stone and slate outbuildings (letting potential?) and, while you can't quite see the sea, it's close enough.

As with Laigh House, lots of lovely original features and gorgeous big rooms to work with.

On the market at offers over a very reasonable £275k. There was closing date but that seems to have passed so hopefully still open to quick-off-the-mark bidders. Details here, more pictures here.

And finally, for those of you whose bank manager/algorithm would laugh their virtual socks off at the idea of you spending £300k or so on a renovation property, here's one on the market at offers around £45k.

Obviously it needs work, and that extension has added a big dollop of ugly to the house. But this one-bedroom, detached house is in under-discovered Weardale, in the village of Stanhope and sits surrounded by an enclosed garden, given a nice private feel to the space and potential to - at least - build a more attractive extension.

Downstairs is the hall, lounge and kitchen; upstairs a bedroom and large bathroom. In the gardens is the brick-built former privy and store. Access is complicated - by foot only over a back lane, and you'll be advised by your solicitor to codify the property's historic right of way. But you don't get perfect at this price.

On the market through Vickers & Barrass at offers around £45k. Details and more pictures here and here.