Broughton Cross, Cockermouth, CA13 0TY

The Bungalow With Plenty Left To Give. Every room waiting for the decision you'd have made first time round. A proper plot, a good footprint, open countryside at the front and a mature garden at the back - and finally, the chance to do it your way.

Some properties ask you to live with someone else's choices. This one hands everything over to you.

The bungalow dates from the early 1970s and sits on a good-sized plot in Broughton Cross. It's detached, it's single-storey, and it has the kind of footprint that gives you real room to move. There are three bedrooms, a living room, a large kitchen and a conservatory that opens out from the kitchen and connects through to the garden. You could move in as it is and update it gradually, or go the other way and rethink the whole thing at once. Either works.

The living room has good proportions - proper space to work with, not just a floor plan that looks bigger than it feels. It also has a Victorian-style cast iron fireplace with a decorative tiled surround and a pine mantel - the kind of feature you'd go looking for in a reclamation yard if it wasn't already here.

The kitchen is large - and that's not a word being stretched here. There's a central island, a double oven, an induction hob and a run of solid wood fitted units that prove this was always meant to be a proper cooking space. Whatever you do with it next, the footprint is already doing its job.

The conservatory opens out from the kitchen and leads straight into the rear garden. It's not the reason to buy the place - but it's usable space, and it makes the transition between inside and out feel easy. The garden beyond it is mature, private and a good size. Lawn, established trees, stone walling, a patio area, and a backdrop of woodland that makes it feel sheltered without feeling hemmed in.

From the front, the outlook is open countryside. Fields and hills rolling away from the windows - the sort of view that takes a moment to register when you first see it from inside.

Broughton Cross sits in that good middle ground - rural enough to feel like you've properly left town, connected enough that Cockermouth is a seven-minute drive and not a significant undertaking. The A66 is close, the Lake District is on the doorstep, and the bus links Broughton with Cockermouth and the surrounding communities if you'd rather not drive.

St Bridget's C of E School in nearby Brigham is around 350 metres away - a five-minute walk. Broughton Primary School in Great Broughton is about 15-20 minutes on foot, or a few minutes by car. Cockermouth School is around five miles away and the area is covered by its school transport network.

This is a property with real potential - a detached bungalow on a substantial plot, with a layout that works, a fireplace worth keeping and a garden that has been loved and looked after over many years. It's perfectly liveable from day one, and the opportunity to update and improve - at whatever pace suits you - is simply there whenever you're ready.

If what you've been looking for is a detached bungalow with a proper garden, open views at the front and enough space to do things properly - this is the one that actually delivers it.

Get in touch to arrange a viewing. Properties in this kind of setting, with this kind of potential, tend not to hang around.