Ruan Minor, Helston, TR12

Skyber, Treal, Ruan Minor
A granite house and self-contained cottage on a no-through lane in the National Trust–protected Poltesco Valley. It comes with about half an acre, a paddock running down to the stream, and the coast path within walking distance.
The main house was built in serpentine granite, believed to be in the early 1900s, and was recently given a green oak porch. Downstairs, the living room is lit from three sides and has a woodburner in a granite fireplace under exposed beams. A stable door opens onto the courtyard. The kitchen and dining room runs to over 22 feet, with stone floors, more beams and an oil-fired Rayburn that also runs the heating and hot water. There is also a ground-floor bedroom, a family bathroom with a roll-top bath and a separate shower room. Upstairs are two further bedrooms, the larger with its own door down to the garden.
Across the courtyard, the two-bedroom cottage has its own kitchen, sitting room and shower room. It has been run as a holiday let in the past and would suit family staying over, a dependent relative or a return to letting.
Outside, a gated gravel courtyard parks four or five cars, and a private drive gives more space to turn. The formal garden falls over three terraced levels with established borders, a summer house and decking. Beyond it, a sloping paddock of about a third of an acre leads down past a pond to a path to the stream. A large garage and workshop has laundry space and mezzanine storage, and there is a separate tractor shed.
The beach is about fifteen minutes' walk, and so is the village shop and post office. Cadgwith, Kynance Cove and Lizard Point are all close by, and Helston is about twenty minutes by car.
Key features
• Granite house and two-bedroom self-contained cottage
• About half an acre in total, including a paddock and terraced gardens
• Cottage suited to family, a dependent relative or letting
• Triple-aspect sitting room with woodburner
• 22ft kitchen/dining room with Rayburn
• Ground-floor bedroom
• Parking for several cars, plus a large garage and workshop
• No-through lane in a National Trust valley
Material information
• Tenure: Freehold
• Council tax: Band D (main house); cottage – ask agent
• EPC: F (main house), F (cottage)
• Heating: Oil-fired Rayburn and woodburner (main house); electric (cottage)