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Darite, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14

South West

£350,000

Listed on 05/11/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
3
Type
Detached

Features

  • Garden
  • Parking

Description

This three-bedroom detached house in Darite is being offered for sale for the first time in three generations, with no onward chain. The ground floor includes an entrance porch, a living room with an open-fireplace feature, a second reception room with a multi-fuel burner, a kitchen with base units and a solid-fuel Rayburn, and a family bathroom. Upstairs are three double bedrooms. The property is described as requiring modernisation. The house sits within a generous plot with a lawned garden wrapping around the property, mature planting, a separate outhouse and driveway parking accessed from a gate at the top of the garden. The listing notes scope to consider an extension or potentially another property within the grounds, subject to planning permission. Planning feasibility would need to be verified. Darite is on the fringes of Bodmin Moor. The listing describes a primary school in the village, with further amenities in nearby Pensilva and St Cleer. Liskeard, around three miles away, has a wider range of shops and services and a mainline railway station. Plymouth is approximately 18 miles east.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.

54out of 100
Grade DWeak opportunity

Confidence: LOW

This detached home in Darite offers a medium-scale modernisation project, with two reception rooms, three double bedrooms and a generous wraparound garden with mature planting. The dated finishes across the rooms shown, together with the overgrown sections of garden, give scope to refresh the interiors and bring the grounds back into shape; the Rayburn and fireplace features add character to work with. The listing also mentions possible extension or additional-property potential, both subject to planning and not established by the available information.

The score is a weak overall opportunity, but not because the £350,000 asking price has been shown to be dear: floor area is missing, so value against local £/sqf cannot yet be judged. That data gap also limits assessment of the project’s residual value.

Key opportunities

  • Refresh the dated finishes across the reception rooms and bedrooms, including carpets and wall finishes.
  • Modernise the dated kitchen and bathroom while retaining or incorporating distinctive features such as the Rayburn and fireplaces.
  • Clear and maintain the wraparound garden, with any extension or additional-property ideas subject to planning and feasibility.

Key risks

None recorded.

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Location

Darite, Liskeard, Cornwall, PL14
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Transport

Nearest stations

  • Liskeard Rail Station

    3.6 miles

    Train · Liskeard

  • Coombe Junction Halt (Rail Station)

    3.8 miles

    Train · Lamellion

  • St Keyne Wishing Well Halt (Rail Station)

    5.2 miles

    Train · St Keyne

  • Menheniot Rail Station

    5.4 miles

    Train · Menheniot

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Current average 2-year fixed rate is 5.13%

Current average variable rate is 6.58%

Monthly Repayments
£1,430
Based on a loan of £262,500 over 30 years at 5.13% interest

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