South Drive, Tehidy, Cornwall, TR14

South Drive, Tehidy

You walk into light. The entrance hall is generous and open, oak and glass rising through it to a galleried landing, with doors leading off to either side and daylight coming from every direction. It sets the tone for the whole house.

From there the ground floor opens up. The kitchen, with its island and breakfast bar, is where the day tends to start, and a single curved wall does something clever here. It gives the kitchen, dining and living areas each their own footing without closing them off, so the space reads as one connected whole rather than a run of separate rooms. You can be at the island and still be part of whatever’s happening by the wood burner. The living room runs a proper 26 feet, then drifts into a sunroom, patio doors pulling the front garden inside when the weather’s kind.

Off the hall there’s a ground-floor room the owners currently use as a study, with a shower room beside it. Set up as a bedroom, it becomes a fourth double with its own en-suite, useful for guests, a live-in relative, or anyone working from home. A utility room and downstairs WC keep the working parts of the house out of the way.

Upstairs are three more doubles. The master, a generous 23 feet, has its own en-suite, and the other two share the family bathroom.

Then there’s the land, a shade over two-thirds of an acre, wrapped in mature trees the current owners planted and shaped themselves, each one under a preservation order.

You settle here quickly.

It’s turnkey and only seven years old, so there’s nothing to do but move in. And at the mouth of South Drive, where the lane meets Tehidy woods, the trees become an extension of the garden, greenery on every side, and a kind of privacy that’s genuinely hard to find.


Additional information

• Tenure: Freehold
• Plot: 0.67 acres (per Land Registry title plan)
• Council tax band: F
• Flood risk: Very low
• Services: Mains water, electricity and gas; sewerage via private treatment plant
• Heating: Underfloor heating downstairs, radiators upstairs
• Broadband: Fibre to the cabinet
• Parking: Carport
• Restrictions: All trees on the plot are subject to Tree Protection Orders