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Lonsdale Avenue, Torrisholme, Morecambe LA4

North West

£299,950

Listed on 19/09/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
4
Type
Semi Detached
Area
1744 sqft

Features

  • Garden
  • Parking

Description

This extended four-bedroom semi-detached house in Torrisholme has a range of reception and work-from-home spaces, together with a south-facing rear garden and off-road parking. The accommodation includes an entrance porch and hallway, a bay-fronted lounge, a separate living room, breakfast room, kitchen, dining room and a sun room overlooking the garden. Upstairs are four bedrooms, a dressing room or home office, an en-suite shower room and a further shower room. The main bedroom extends across the front of the house and includes access to the dressing area and en-suite. Outside, the block-paved front provides parking for up to three vehicles. The rear garden is mainly lawn with a paved patio, established borders and a large workshop or storage outbuilding with power, lighting and heating. The house has gas central heating and is mostly uPVC double glazed, although the porch and sun room include timber-framed single glazing. The listing describes the property as needing modernisation, offering scope to update its dated interiors. It is offered with no onward chain and is close to local shops, schools, Bare Lane station, the seafront promenade and the Bay Gateway link road.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

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

71out of 100
Grade BGood opportunity

Confidence: MEDIUM

A strong value-led project: at £299,950, the asking price is around 15% below the local £/sqf average, giving buyers an opportunity to acquire substantial accommodation at a comparatively low entry price. The four-bedroom layout, several reception spaces, broad driveway and southerly-facing garden with a powered, heated workshop give this extended semi plenty to work with. The interiors are usable but dated, so the scope is mainly a light modernisation—refreshing finishes and updating fittings rather than tackling an obvious major structural job.

The numbers support the appeal: the £9,000 renovation midpoint brings the stated purchase-plus-works figure to £308,950, against an implied local average value of £352,811. That comparison is not a renovated GDV and excludes stamp duty and fees, but it points to useful headroom for a buyer who can manage the improvements well. Check the workshop’s condition and permitted use, and assess the older single-glazed porch and sun-room elements.

Key opportunities

  • Acquire 1,744 sq ft at an asking price around 15% below the local £/sqf average.
  • Modernise the dated finishes and fittings across the usable interior as a light, flexible value-add project.
  • Make the most of the southerly-facing garden, off-road parking and powered, heated workshop/outbuilding.

Key risks

None recorded.

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Lonsdale Avenue, Torrisholme, Morecambe LA4
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Current average variable rate is 6.60%

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£1,133
Based on a loan of £224,962 over 30 years at 4.45% interest

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