Property in Devon: the home with a half-million pound view

By Adam Edwards in Devon 1200PM GMT 10 March 2010

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Previous of Images Next Hamptons character the refurbished Bay House in Devon The thespian flagstone square takes in all of Devon"s Tor Bay Every room is destined at the perspective

At the wrong finish of the New King"s Road, 100 yards from what was affectionately well well known to each Eighties Hooray Henry as Hackett"s Cross (after the used gentleman"s outfitters that was sited there), was an exhaust-stained row of grubby houses. And in an top ground-floor window at the finish of the terrace, sandwiched in between dirty potion and a soiled net curtain, was a small card pointer that review "Seaview".

My initial arrogance was that this was an mocking gesticulate by a pasty-faced civil joker, but afterwards my regretful side kicked in and I veered towards meditative that it was a commemoration from a tainted fortnight subsequent to the seaside.

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For a perspective of the sea is something to blow about, as the name on the normal British coastal boarding residence will attest. There are some-more "Seaview" b & bs in Britain than there are guest to protest about them.

There are streets, train parks, legal holiday lets and even a small locale on the Isle of Wight called "Seaview".

And I identical to to think that by rights that name should additionally be given to Bay House in Churston, South Devon. This is not given the Arts and Craft-style residence belongs in b & b domain far from it but given from the square one cannot usually take in the length and extent of Tor Bay but additionally on a transparent day and with a absolute span of binoculars see as far as the Isle of Wight"s "Seaview".

It is a flowing perspective that, according to the agents Knight Frank, is value half a million pounds.

"The skill is singular given it"s on the really tip of the headland, with the widest views," says Martin O"Brien, a thriller bard who hereditary the residence from his father, a former naval aver officer.

"It doesn"t have a difference if it is a dim and inclement night or a transparent and balmy day, the residence is dominated by the ocean. My father was spellbound by it he outlayed his latter years staring at the setting by a telescope."

Quite how that magnified perspective is labelled is a poser well well known usually to those who competition signet rings and laser fasten measures. The sea, with the difference of a couple of pointed changes of colour, looks flattering most the same wherever you are in Britain. And nonetheless last year a fisherman"s lodge in Kent that looked opposite the English Channel was sole for usually �250,000 (it is loyal it was subsequent to Dungeness chief energy station, but afterwards that competence be an tasteful scenery to lovers of industrial landscapes) and a small residence in Ayrshire with the Firth of Clyde in the front grassed area is usually valued at about �150,000.

The steer of the sea in the south-west of England, on the alternative hand, is, according to agents, the coastal homogeneous of a penthouse prosaic in Manhattan. And in particular, the crashing of the waves and the squeaking of gambolling dolphins in Tor Bay is value as most as the bricks and trebuchet that have up Bay House.

The cliff-top residence is written around the nautical asset. The flagstone square appears, identical to an forever pool, to disband in to the sea. Hidden next is a square grassed area with a identical outlook.

The upper-floor bedrooms have 8ft-wide shifting doors opening onto a large embellished balcony, and downstairs there is some-more potion opening onto the large square where one can delight in the eight-seat prohibited cylinder and watch the wink lights of merchantmen.

"Every chair, lounge and chair is destined at the view," O"Brien says. "You can hasten eggs in the kitchen whilst seeking at the Isle of Wight." That kitchen, along with the rest of the house, was not long ago refurbished in what the writer calls "Hamptons style".

The Hamptons sits at the finish of the south seashore of Long Island, off Manhattan. It is where F Scott Fitzgerald set his novel The Great Gatsby and has been a show up for American actors, directors, writers and captains of industry ever since. It is the devout home of engineer infrequent wear and each chichi residence (and there are really couple of that aren"t modish) has embellished Shaker furniture, delicate colour colours and old ash tongue-and-groove floorboards.

The Hamptons additionally has houses called "Seaview" that see out over the Atlantic Ocean and that could, with a Hubble telescope, brand a identical tiwn in Bay House a far nicer awaiting than focusing on the normal pebbledash one-story dwelling that is your normal British "Seaview". And far better, too, than a meant London terraced residence 50 miles from the sea.

Bay House is for sale for �1.2 million by Knight Frank, 01392 423111 10 most appropriate waterside homes