This truly spectacular Coastal House, worth £4,500,000, enjoys an enviable position just a few miles south of the vibrant and historic harbour town of Falmouth, within Cornwall’s South Coast Western Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The house offers a contemporary retreat from the ordinary, with three floors of glass-fronted, sea-view panoramas; a rooftop pool; decked dining terrace; and landscaped garden, with an outdoor kitchen and fire pit. For your chance to win the keys, along with £250,000 in cash, enter the Cornwall House Draw supporting the RSPB now.
Falmouth Harbour is the deepest natural harbour in Western Europe and the start or finish point for various round-the-world, record-breaking voyagers, such as Sir William Robert Pat “Robin” Knox-Johnston and Dame Ellen MacArthur. Presided over by Pendennis Castle, an imposing fortress built by Henry VIII, and St Anthony’s Lighthouse, Falmouth is a lively town presenting Cornwall’s characteristic independence and charm. The Fal Estury’s picturesque port is the UK’s gateway to the Atlantic, as well as the meeting point of the River Fal and English Channel.
Characterful cobbled lanes, lined with Victorian and Georgian cottages housing independent shops and cafes, lead up from the harbour and its glassy bay’s neat lines of sailing boats and yachts. The Waterfront encompasses the National Maritime Museum and countless art galleries and creative enterprises, such as Falmouth Art Gallery and The Poly. The Mulberry, with its Bib Gourmand and Michelin-approved MINE and Culture, offer stand-out, locally-sourced fare in pared-back, rustic surrounds hidden away down narrow passageways and in cosy courtyards.
Falmouth’s Gyllyngvase Beach is a Blue Flag bay lying south of the harbour, with pale golden sand perfect for building sandcastles and digging moats. While its turquoise waters are relatively sheltered for family-friendly splashes and scuba dives in the shallows. Just a short stroll from the house itself is Maenporth Beach, another crescent of soft-sand nestled between low, grassy headlands carpeted in gorse and heather. In this quintessential cove, Falmouth Surf and Watersports School offer surf, kayak and SUP hire and lessons next to Life’s a Beach cafe.
South Cornwall is a walker’s paradise and a gate in the herbaceous borders of this Coastal House allows you to step from your landscaped garden directly onto the South West Coast Path—England's longest way-marked path that stretches 613 miles from Somerset to Dorset. From your back door, walk a few miles of this incredible route to Swanpool Nature Reserve, a protected lagoon home to Britain’s only Trembling Sea Mat—a velvety colony of tiny animals called zooids. Or stroll south to the low, wooded cliffs and prehistoric slate rocks of Bream Cove.
Alternatively, explore the River Fal and Hel’s tranquil network of waterways by foot, boat or paddle board. The land between both of these ancient rias, or drowned river valleys, is a Marine Protected Area to conserve their shallow inlets and bays, saltmarshes, intertidal mudflats and sandbank wildlife habitats. Here, sloping valleys, dense with sessile oak, are one of the few places in England where ancient woodland meets the sea. Helford’s idyllic, hidden tributaries even inspired Daphne Du Maurier’s famous novel, Frenchman’s Creek.
Enter now for your chance to win this luxury Coastal House near Falmouth, worth £4,500,000, along with £250,000 in cash, and support the RSPB’s vital work protecting and restoring our wild places, saving birds and other wildlife, and tackling the climate emergency.
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