Larkfield Lane, Southport, PR9

This beautiful Churchtown home has been comprehensively updated and reworked around modern family life, with the rear opened up into a light kitchen, dining and family space, a separate front lounge, utility/pantry, downstairs WC and a landscaped garden.

The result is a home that feels finished, considered and ready to enjoy, with a layout designed around modern family life and a consistent quality running through every part of the house.

The kitchen and rear living space are the centre of the home. The dining kitchen sits beneath a vaulted ceiling with rooflights bringing natural light down into the room, while doors open directly onto the garden. The kitchen itself has been completely renewed, with a clean contemporary finish, updated to fully renovated Quartz worktops and AEG integrated appliances.

It connects directly with the rear lounge, creating one larger living area where cooking, eating and relaxing can happen together. It is easy to imagine this being the part of the house used most — children doing homework at the table, friends gathering around the kitchen, or the doors being opened onto the patio and garden in summer.

Importantly, the front lounge remains separate. That gives the house two genuinely useful living spaces rather than asking one open-plan room to do everything: somewhere quieter for evenings, television or simply getting away from the busier part of the house.

The renovation extends well beyond the kitchen to a full rewire and new central heating system. The house has been fully replastered, wood flooring runs throughout the ground floor, a utility/pantry has been added and there is now a separate downstairs WC. Details such as the Porcelanosa tiling show the level of thought that has gone into the finish rather than simply updating the obvious areas.

Upstairs, the principal bedroom benefits from the front bay, with a good second bedroom overlooking the rear and a beautifully decorated 3rd room that is being used as a nursery. The family bathroom has also been completely updated, with Porcelanosa tiling and Geberit fixtures, a modern suite and plantation shutters adding a particularly smart finishing detail. The existing listing confirms the principal room dimensions, rear second bedroom and flexible third bedroom arrangement.

Outside, the rear garden has been landscaped to work with the house rather than simply sit behind it. An Indian stone patio creates the immediate seating and entertaining area from the kitchen, with lawn beyond, established hedging and planting giving the garden privacy. It is not directly overlooked, while the front provides off-road parking.

The result is a home that should particularly appeal to buyers who like the character and established setting of Churchtown but do not want the cost, disruption or uncertainty of carrying out the renovation themselves. The layout has been improved around modern family life, and the finish is consistent from the main living space through to the smaller details.