Chatsworth Way, St. Austell, PL25

You can change a house. You can't recreate a location like this.

Tucked away in one of Carlyon Bay's most peaceful residential settings, this detached three-bedroom home has been cherished by the same owners for more than 60 years.

That length of ownership tells you something about the home, but perhaps even more about its position.

Chatsworth Way is wonderfully quiet, with very little passing traffic, yet you're only minutes from the coast. Add a beautiful mature garden, driveway parking and garage, and you have the foundations of a home that could be transformed into something very special indeed.

The property would now benefit from modernisation internally, but crucially, a number of the larger and less exciting jobs have already been taken care of.

A replacement roof, replacement windows, updated electrics and a new boiler have all been completed within recent years, leaving the next owner free to focus much more of their attention on the interior, its finishes and how they want the home to work for them.

Step inside and there's a reassuring amount of space to play with.

The lounge is bright and generously proportioned, providing a comfortable room in which to properly relax, while the separate dining area gives family meals and entertaining their own space.

Beyond here, the conservatory creates a lovely transition between the house and garden. It's somewhere to sit with a morning coffee, read with the doors open on a summer afternoon or simply enjoy looking out across the greenery throughout the seasons.

The kitchen is ready for its next chapter.

Rather than inheriting somebody else's recent choices, there's an opportunity here to start again and create exactly what you want. Whether that's a beautiful standalone kitchen or potentially exploring a more open and sociable arrangement with the adjoining accommodation, the existing footprint gives a new owner plenty to think about, subject of course to any necessary works and consents.

The bedroom arrangement is another feature that makes the property particularly interesting.

One of the three bedrooms is positioned on the ground floor, giving the house a flexibility that will appeal to a wide range of buyers. It could work brilliantly as a principal bedroom for somebody wanting to reduce their reliance on stairs, while equally lending itself to guest accommodation, home working or simply an additional reception space if three bedrooms aren't required.

Upstairs, two further bedrooms complete the sleeping accommodation.

But arguably the hardest thing to replicate here is waiting outside.

This is a proper, established garden.

Years of careful planting have created a wonderfully mature and private setting around the home, with generous lawned areas, established shrubs and greenery giving the garden a sense of seclusion that's difficult to achieve with newer properties.

There's room for keen gardeners to make it their own, space for children or grandchildren, plenty of opportunity for outdoor dining and entertaining, and enough garden to simply find a quiet corner and disappear into it for an afternoon.

It's not an outside space that's been designed for a photograph. It's a garden that's been created and enjoyed over decades — and that gives it real character.

To the front, further established planting creates an attractive approach, while the private driveway provides ample off-road parking and leads to the garage.

And then there's Carlyon Bay itself.

From this peaceful position, the beach and South West Coast Path are within easy reach, putting some of Cornwall's most beautiful coastline almost on your doorstep.

Nearby Charlestown provides its historic harbour, restaurants and cafés, while St Austell offers supermarkets, schools, healthcare facilities and a mainline railway station with direct services to London Paddington.

For buyers relocating to Cornwall, it's a location that delivers the coastal lifestyle without leaving everyday practicality behind.

This isn't a home pretending to be finished.

It needs somebody with ideas, someone who can look beyond decoration and see the opportunity created by the position, plot, proportions and improvements already made.

Kitchens can be replaced. Bathrooms can be redesigned. Interiors can be completely transformed.

A mature private garden, an exceptionally peaceful road and a position this close to the Cornish coast are rather more difficult to manufacture.

After more than six decades as a much-loved home, there's now an opportunity for somebody else to make it their own.

Not simply for the next few years, but perhaps for the next generation.

Offered with no onward chain.