Redmain, Cockermouth, CA13 0PZ

The View You Promised Yourself When You Said 'One Day'. One day the fells would be outside your window, not on a screensaver. One day the morning would start with birdsong and open sky, not traffic and a commute. Hill Cottage is where one day finally arrives.

That feeling when you pull back the curtains and the fells are right there - a full, wide sweep of open countryside filling the window from edge to edge - is the one Hill Cottage delivers every single morning.

This is a home that's already done. The whole property has been freshly modernised throughout, with a neutral, contemporary finish that feels calm and considered rather than clinical.

The heart of it is the L-shaped kitchen, diner and living space - a room that earns the description on every count. Two bay aspects flood it with light: one a window framing the garden, one French doors opening onto the patio at the back. From there, the view runs out across the half-acre of land that comes with the property, all the way to the fells beyond. There's room here for a proper dining table and a sitting area without either feeling squeezed, and the LVT flooring ties the whole space together cleanly. Integrated appliances throughout mean it's ready to cook in from day one.

Off the main living space, a separate snug with a large decorative inglenook fireplace gives you somewhere to retreat on winter evenings when the fells outside are catching the last of the light. It's the kind of room you'll find yourself in from October to March.

The ground floor also has a bedroom and a four-piece bathroom - genuinely useful for guests, or for anyone who'd rather not do the stairs every day. A utility room keeps the washing machine and the muddy-boot chaos well away from the living space.

Upstairs, there's three double bedrooms, two of them look out over open countryside, and a shower room serves the floor. Wake up to the same view that made you buy the place.

Outside, there's a block-paved driveway at the front with further parking beside the large single garage. The patio at the back is where you'll spend most of your summer evenings, looking out over the land. That half-acre of additional ground beyond the fence is level and open - well suited to horses or any kind of outdoor project you've been putting off until you had the space.

For day-to-day life, Cockermouth is seven to ten minutes by car. Supermarkets, independent shops, cafés and restaurants are all genuinely accessible - so you get the open countryside without cutting yourself off from the things that make daily life straightforward. Cockermouth School is around a five-minute drive, and Redmain is on the school's dedicated catchment transport route. When you want to stretch further, Bassenthwaite Lake is ten to fifteen minutes away and Keswick is around twenty.

If the rural move has been on the list for years - held back by the worry that the right place would need a year of work before it felt like home - Hill Cottage answers that directly. It's already finished, already quiet, and already looking at the fells.

We're expecting real interest in this one - get in touch to arrange a viewing.

Please note: some of the photographs used in this listing have been virtually staged to illustrate how the property may look once fully furnished. The property is currently unfurnished and without flooring, as described above.