Ling Beck Park, Seaton, Workington, CA14 1JQ

The Bungalow For People Who Don't Want A Traditional Bungalow. Because downsizing was always about losing the upstairs - not the kitchen you actually cook in, the space where friends gather, or the garden you've earned.

Most bungalows ask you to trade the kitchen you actually cook in for the convenience of a single floor. This one doesn't.

The kitchen runs almost 20 feet across the back of the house. Dark-grey handleless units reach floor to ceiling, white composite worktops with a waterfall edge wrap around a central island, and an induction hob sits flush into the surface right where you need it. Two bar stools tuck under the breakfast bar, so friends can perch there while you cook - conversations carry, and nobody ends up standing awkwardly in a doorway.

The lounge flows straight from it. There's no corridor between them, no sense of retreat into a separate room - just one long, well-lit space where the cooking and the talking and the relaxing all happen in the same place. A Crittall-style glazed door leads through to the utility and hallway, letting light carry through without the spaces bleeding into one another.

All three bedrooms sit off the central hallway. The main bedroom is a good size - 3.97 metres by 3.19 metres - and there's room for a proper bed and wardrobe without the room feeling crowded. The second bedroom works comfortably as a guest room when the family visits. The third is the right size for a desk and bookshelves, or a hobby room, or simply a room that doesn't have to justify itself.

The bathroom is contemporary and freshly fitted, with neutral tiling and a clean, uncluttered finish. The whole interior has been refurbished to a standard where you can move straight in and start living, without planning a schedule of work first.

Outside, the rear garden runs to a decent length. There's a lawn with planted borders and new timber panel fencing on all boundaries - private, established and genuinely useable rather than just a strip of grass to look at.

The garage is attached and has its own door off the hallway. The driveway handles two cars easily. It's the kind of practical layout that stops feeling trivial after the first winter.

Seaton village shops are around a two-minute walk from the front door. The bus stop is roughly 100 yards away, with services into Workington running approximately every 30 minutes through the day. Workington town centre is a ten-minute drive, with the train station about 1.7 miles away. Seaton C of E Junior School is a three-minute walk, and Seaton Academy is about five minutes on foot.

If the conversation about downsizing has stalled because every bungalow you've looked at has asked you to give something up, this is the one worth seeing - because it doesn't.

Call us today to arrange a viewing.