Main Street, Egremont, CA22 2DJ

Nearly 2,000 Square Feet Of Sandstone Character In The Heart Of Egremont. The kind of space and potential that simply does not exist at this price point anymore. If you know what you are looking at, you already know.

Nearly 2,000 square feet of Cumbrian sandstone sits right on the main street, and it is asking offers over £230,000. That number alone tells you something is different here.

This is three Victorian terraces combined into one substantial building — and at its heart, that is the opportunity. The whole thing sits at just under 1,920 square feet across two floors, with a footprint that would cost you twice as much to buy in Keswick or Kendal, and probably more than that anywhere further south. The sandstone frontage gives it real architectural presence on Egremont Main Street, the kind of character you cannot build new and cannot fake.

The ground floor runs to just under 1,000 square feet and the first floor to just over 900. What the current layout describes as utility rooms are, in reality, rooms of convertible size — straightforward candidates for additional bedrooms with minimal work. Add those to the existing bedroom on the first floor, which measures over 23 feet in length with a dressing room off it, and you begin to understand the residential potential here. The kitchen-diner is a proper working size at 4.81 by 4.14 metres. None of this is a small terraced house dressed up — this is a building with genuine scale.

The upper floor also benefits from a large reception room that has real potential as a second sitting room or family room. For anyone converting the building into a substantial family home, or into a mixed-use arrangement with a self-contained upper floor apartment, that space changes the equation considerably. You would have two generous living areas, generous bedroom accommodation, and enough flexibility to configure the layout around almost any brief.

The garden at the back is the other surprise. Town-centre properties in West Cumbria do not tend to come with space like this. There are two established greenhouses, raised vegetable beds that have been in productive use, mature trees, gravel paths, stone boundary walls and an outbuilding with conversion potential. The four plots at the rear sit separately enough that they could each be given to individual dwellings if the building is ever reconfigured, or kept as one extraordinary private garden. For a family, it is the kind of outdoor space that makes a town-centre address feel like a rural one.

The property is currently registered as commercial — it was used as a beauty salon — which is part of what has kept the price where it is. Converting it back to residential is not an unusual process in Cumbria, and the layout lends itself to more than one outcome. Keep it as one large family home and you have something genuinely rare at this price point. Split it back into two or three separate dwellings and you have an income-producing asset. Or retain the front section as a commercial space — a salon, treatment rooms or consulting space — and convert the rest into a substantial owner's apartment with independent access from the rear. The external staircase at the back already makes that kind of arrangement straightforward.

West Lakes Academy is directly opposite. Bookwell and Orgill primary schools are both walkable from the door. Sellafield is around ten minutes by car — and the new Aldi on the high street is one of several signs that real investment is coming back into the town.

This is not a property for everyone, and it was never meant to be. It needs vision, and the right buyer will probably need some experience with a project. But the price, the scale, the sandstone and the garden are a combination that does not come around often in this part of Cumbria.

If you already know what you are looking at, do not sit on it. Get in touch and arrange a viewing.