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See how verdicts work3-bedroom bungalow · CA14 3HX
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The Bungalow That Actually Feels Like A Home. Proper room sizes, a private garden, a drive and a garage - on one of Workington's most popular roads, with no forward chain to worry about.
This is single-level living that doesn't ask you to give anything up.
Most bungalows at this price in Workington sit in one of two camps: Too small to feel like a real home, or too far gone to move into without rolling up your sleeves for months.
This one has been kept in genuinely good order and offers more living space than most buyers expect to find at this level in the area.
The living room runs to over 17 feet and has an ornate fireplace as its focal point. It's the kind of room that actually fits a large sofa and still leaves space to breathe.
The kitchen is a good size, with room for a dining table if you'd rather eat in there on ordinary days. Traditional white units line the walls and there's a tiled floor underfoot.
Off the back, a practical utility space houses the Vaillant boiler and gives you somewhere for the washing machine that keeps it out of the kitchen entirely.
A lean-to conservatory opens from the kitchen onto the rear garden - it's a useful extra sitting space on a dry afternoon, or somewhere to keep the bikes and garden chairs out of the weather.
The main bedroom has fitted wardrobes already in place. The second bedroom is a double and has been used as a secondary sitting room - which tells you something about the flexibility on offer here.
Use it as a proper bedroom, a quiet snug, a home office: It works for all of them.
The third bedroom also benefits from a rear extension that added a dedicated study or dressing area alongside it - genuine extra space that most bungalows simply don't have.
That same extension gave the bathroom room to breathe too, resulting in a properly sized room with both a bath and a shower over it: Two things you'd normally have to choose between.
The loft has been converted and is accessed by a pull down ladder. With power and lighting, heating, and a Velux window, it's an ideal area for a hobby room.
There's real potential here to put your own stamp on things.
The layout is solid, the space is there, and the work involved is largely cosmetic - the kind of updating you can do gradually, in your own time and to your own taste.
A fresh bathroom suite, a repainted hallway, new flooring in the living room: These are straightforward changes that will bring a real return, and you get to choose exactly what that looks like rather than inheriting someone else's decisions.
Outside, the plot is well-proportioned. There's a drive at the front with the attached garage alongside it.
At the back, a paved patio sits at the lower level with steps up to a raised lawn beyond, enclosed by walls and hedging that give it real privacy.
It's the kind of garden where you can actually sit outside without feeling like the neighbours are watching.
Ashfield Road is one of those addresses people in Workington tend to stay in once they've arrived. Workington town centre is around a 20-minute walk, or five minutes in the car.
Head out the other way via High Street and you're in Whitehaven or Cockermouth in under 10 minutes without touching the town centre at all.
There's no forward chain, which matters more than it might sound. It means you're not waiting on someone else's timing or hoping a complicated sequence of sales holds together.
If what you're looking for is a proper detached bungalow - with space that actually works, a garden to sit in and a location you already know and like - this is worth arranging a viewing for.
Get in touch today to book yours.
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Properties like this can earn 2–3x BTL yields when converted to HMO, with retrofit costs around £10k/room. Sign in to see the full tier, yield projection, and cost breakdown.
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