Brookfield Lane, Aughton, L39

The right renovation project needs more than rooms to redecorate. It needs enough space, enough land and enough potential to make the work worthwhile.

Set along Brookfield Lane in Aughton, this detached home has all three.

It sits on approximately 0.18 acres, with a large private rear garden, substantial driveway and integral double garage. Inside, the layout is generous and flexible, with four bedrooms currently arranged across two floors and approximately 2,174 sq ft in total, including the garage.

It needs modernising, but there is already plenty here to work with.

The lounge and dining room extends to more than 32 feet, with French doors opening directly onto the garden. Alongside it are a good-sized kitchen, separate morning room and utility. You could update the existing rooms gradually, or look at reworking the rear to create the big kitchen, dining and family space that would make the most of both the house and garden.

There is currently a bedroom on the ground floor, together with a shower room and separate WC. That could work brilliantly for an older relative, guest or teenager, but it could just as easily become a snug, playroom or home office depending on what your family needs.

Upstairs are three further bedrooms and the family bathroom. The integral double garage below creates further potential to extend above, subject to planning permission and the necessary consents. For the right buyer, that could mean a much larger first floor with four generous bedrooms, improved bathroom provision and perhaps the principal suite the house does not yet have.

That is what makes this more than a cosmetic project. You are not simply choosing new finishes. You have the space and plot to properly change the house and create something that works for the next ten or twenty years.

The garden is a huge part of it. There is room for children, dogs, entertaining, planting and all the bits of family life that need more space than a standard modern plot tends to give you.

Brookfield Lane has a semi-rural feel while keeping you close to everyday life in Aughton and Ormskirk. Town Green railway station is within easy reach for travel towards Liverpool, with well-regarded local schools, countryside walks and some of the area’s best-known places to eat, including Moor Hall and The Barn at Moor Hall, all nearby.

This is a home for somebody prepared to see beyond its current presentation and recognise what is already here: a detached house, a proper garden, flexible accommodation and the scope to create something far more special.

Offered for sale with no onward chain and offers over £400,000 considered.

Any alterations, reconfiguration or extension would be subject to planning permission, building regulations approval and any other necessary consents. Buyers should make their own enquiries.