Daleview Gardens,Egremont,CA22 2LN

The House That Pays You Back For Every Hour You Put In. Four bedrooms, a double garage and a wrap-around garden that nobody overlooks. All yours to shape - fifteen minutes from the Lakes, and closer to Sellafield than most people dare hope.

Four bedrooms. A double garage. A wrap-around garden that backs onto open countryside. For a lot of people relocating to West Cumbria for work at Sellafield, those three things together - at this price - would be enough. But the position is what makes it genuinely interesting.

Daleview Gardens sits at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac, which means the driveway is wide, the garden wraps around without another house looking in, and the upper bedrooms look out over green fields rather than a neighbour's extension. It is the kind of setting that is hard to find and harder to leave.

Sellafield is about fifteen minutes by car. The Lake District National Park boundary is roughly the same. That is a rarer pairing than most people realise - most homes that are genuinely convenient for the site sit further from the hills, and the ones closest to the park carry a premium that makes a four-bedroom detached feel out of reach.

The house itself is ready for someone to put their stamp on it. The layout is exactly what a family needs, with two reception rooms on the ground floor, a kitchen with rear access out to the garden and two windows that bring in decent natural light, and a ground floor WC, while upstairs four bedrooms are served by a bathroom with both a separate shower enclosure and a bath. The living room has a traditional wood surround fireplace that is worth keeping. The main bedroom has fitted wardrobes running the full length of one wall.

The double garage is attached to the side of the house and is a proper double - 4.84 metres by 5.20 metres. Enough for two cars and still room to work. If you want a workshop, a home gym, or just somewhere to keep everything the house cannot absorb, this is it.

Bookwell Primary School is within easy walking distance and is highly regarded by local parents. For secondary, West Lakes Academy is located on Egremont Main Street, straightforward and easy to access! Whitehaven town centre is about ten minutes by car for supermarkets, retail and the wider range of services. But for closer amenities, shops, cafes and bars are all at your service in Egremont's centre - not to mention the new Aldi! 

The plain truth about this one is that it needs work - redecoration throughout as a minimum, and probably a reconfiguration of the ground floor to create the open-plan feel that most families want now. But the sheer space and layout gives you something you cannot manufacture from scratch: the right number of rooms in the right places, a garage big enough to double as a base of operations while the work happens, and a plot that gives you privacy from day one.

If you have been watching West Cumbria prices and wondering when a genuinely sizeable detached house with this much scope and this much space around it would come up at a price that makes the project worth doing - this is probably the answer.

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