Where to start with this review? Firstly the location could not be better, right on the road down to the sea, the views are unbelievable, from every window. Parking is really convenient because then you dont need to pay in the car park down below.
The cottage is a 1920s house with a great layout, good spacious rooms, it feels solid and traditional. It feels 'nice'. Its the sort of house I imagined when I used to read the famous 5 when they all had to recuperate for months on end from some sniffle or cold they had.
But, the house is severely neglected. The carpets are thread bare, the floor boards are loose upstairs and actually show through the carpet (you can see the outline of them).
The bath has horrible black marks in them and there is an awful stick on thing on them (to prevent you slipping) which means it cant (and hasnt) been cleaned properly. There is no shower attachment to the bath taps which means you cant even give it a sluise down. The shower itself is ok, its electric but the shower curtain is one of those fabric ones which means that it clings to you and as I wasnt sure of the cleanliness this made me feel ill.
The fixtures and fittings around the house are ok, clean, adquate, furniture nice and comfy but such a lack of care. A window in the kitchen was obviously done up at some point and looks as if it was patched up with lumpy putty and just left like it, no finishing off.
Having said all that, the house just feels nice and the location is fab, so would we probably stay again, possibly if we were that way, but actually it made us both very cross that the house is treated this way, I felt sorry for it. There are 2 'conservatory' rooms which again, need attention and could be fantastic, all the double glazing in one is misted up obscuring those lovely views and the other is at the entrance where the flooring and windows need replacing.
Even things like where the skirting and picture rails have been marked with wall paint, just scruffy for no reason. I would never treat a property in such a manner.