3 bed semi-detached house for sale

Sycamore Drive, Workington CA14

Built In 2019 And Still Looks Like The Show Home. Most five-year-old houses look like five-year-old houses. This one has had serious money spent on it since the keys were handed over - and it shows in every room. When a house is only five years old and already looks this good, it means someone cared. A lot.

Most new builds stay exactly as the developer left them. This one didn't. The owners moved in and got to work, adding floor to ceiling tiling in every bathroom, fully integrated kitchen appliances, gorgeous large-format porcelain tiles running through the hall and into the kitchen, and a split-face tile feature wall on the staircase landing that stops you in your tracks. The result is a home that feels like a show home - except warmer, and actually finished.

The kitchen is where you'll spend most of your time, and it earns that. High-gloss handleless units with marble-effect quartz worktops run the full length of the room, with a double oven and microwave tower, integrated wine cooler, washing machine and an extractor hood built flush into the cabinetry. Large porcelain floor tiles and bi-fold doors onto the patio keep the whole space bright and open. It's a kitchen that makes cooking feel like something you actually want to do.

The downstairs WC has been tiled floor to ceiling in large-format Carrara marble-effect tiles, with a wall-hung basin and WC and an illuminated mirror cabinet. It's the kind of finish you'd expect in a boutique hotel, not a three-bed semi in West Cumbria. One of those small details that tells you exactly how much thought has gone into this place.

Upstairs, the main bedroom is a proper retreat with its own en-suite. The second bedroom has full-width mirrored sliding wardrobes fitted across the entire wall, giving you serious storage without taking a centimetre of floor space. The third bedroom works well as a home office or a child's room. A family bathroom with the same high-spec tiling as the rest of the house completes the first floor.

Out the back, a south-facing garden gets the sun from morning through to evening. An extended patio gives you plenty of space to sit out in it - and with open fields directly behind, it feels a lot more rural than the address suggests. The kind of thing you'd only find out about once you'd already bought somewhere else.

For everyday life, Seaton village centre is about a ten minute walk away, with a One Stop supermarket, pharmacy, two pubs and a Chinese takeaway. Workington town centre is around ten minutes by car, and Cockermouth is fifteen minutes in the other direction - so you're never far from whatever you need.

If you've been searching for a home that's genuinely ready to move into with no snagging list, no decorating and no waiting, this is the one that's been done properly.

Properties in this condition at this price don't stay available for long. Get in touch to arrange a viewing.