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What price would I, you or anyone, put on this? To live in a house that has the whole sweep of Padstow Bay, yet is slipped into a quiet private lane, is a wonder indeed. But to place a value on such a setting means conjuring with numbers. “The difference in value which a setting makes to a house on the coast with a protected view and perhaps a foreshore can be 50 per cent,” says Martyn Rohrs of Savills, who is handling the sale. And this is Rock, Britain’s richest coastal haunt. So Erica’s house, with its wraparound slate terrace and steps down to Porthilly Beach, is for sale at £2.75 million through Savills. Its garden, being sold seperately as a building plot with planning permission, with the same grandstand view, is on for sale jointly at £2.5 million with John Bray and Savills. The family has owned the house, Mullets, since Erica’s father built it in 1977. They want to sell either the house or the garden plot to realise a capital sum. “Then we would like to keep the other in the family for ever,” Erica adds. Setting shouldn’t be confused with location. Setting means space to stretch your eyes, tickle the imagination, to inhabit a great landscape and be private. Location often involves good transport links, snob value and proximity to the café culture. Estate agents have seen the effect setting has on buyers. “Two years ago we had a house in Rock which went on at £4.95 million and sold in a week for near to £6.5 million,” Rohrs says. “I am now selling a five-bedroom, Thirties, somewhat dated house at Daymer Bay at £1.25 million, and there is a scrap for it, with four bidders offering hundreds of thousands more.” Most agents agree that if Mullets was placed in north Kent the price would fall to £500,000 or £600,000. The setting of a house can make its fortune. In some cases, agents find themselves selling the setting without the house. Hunterswood, tucked in six acres of private parkland, sits along the fattest stretch of the River Dart in Devon. The views stretch up for miles across to Dittisham and up river towards Galmpton. The five-bedroom house seems almost an afterthought. Marchand Petit is selling it for £3.5 million. Alex Lawson, at Savills, is asking £3.5 million for Ranton in Staffordshire, the beautifully laid out parkland of a once-grand country house that is now so dilapidated that trees are growing through the roof. There is a lake, a ruined Grade II tower, converted stables with a three-bedroom apartment, 300 acres and permission for a 23,000sq ft house. “Planning consents for big houses are rare,” Lawson says, “and one combined with a beautiful parkland setting is extremely rare.” Near Alton, Hampshire, the acres come in smaller quantities, but the prices come with Home Counties gilding. Penny Hill is for sale through Knight Frank and Savills at £4 million with permission for a vast Queen Anne house, with a pool, gym, stables, tennis court and 55 acres. “The landscape is as it was in the 18th century with little fields, valleys, woods and fantastic views,” says David Pardoe of Savills. It just needs a Mr Darcy to make it happen. With the Football World Cup 2010 coming up in South Africa, the whole country is going to be in the world spotlight and there are some fabulous properties to buy with World Class Views - all at a snippet of what they would cost in Europe. Take Leopard Rock, in Constantia Upper, Cape Town - a 7 bedroom hill top villa with some of the most magnificient views available throughout the world - and today it will cost you circa £2million. A similar property in one of Europe's leading locations could easily cost 4 or 5 times as much, says Shaun Ascough, Group MD of Sands Home Search International.
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