A DETACHED traditional three- bedroom Cornish cottage standing in good-sized grounds and with great potential for further improvement is being offered for sale by public auction at the Victoria Room, Wadebridge Town Hall, on Wednesday, October 20, at 12 noon with a price guide of £200,000.

The property is being sold by Cole Rayment and White.

Rose Hill cottage at Trenant Vale, Wadebridge, is a detached traditional Cornish cottage of stone construction situated in the popular area of Trenant Vale just off Egloshayle Road.

The property stands in good- sized gardens which, the agents understand, extends to approximately half an acre in total. It is also thought that the third bedroom and bathroom form part of an extension which the agents believe to be of single brickwork under a rag slate roof over the kitchen lean-to.

The property offers great potential for improvement, or even enlargement, subject of course, to the necessary planning and building regulation consent being granted. The property has been in the current family since 1944.

The property enjoys a very pretty-style cottage garden to the front having a very nice sunny aspect and to the side there is a corrugated iron outhouse - 15ft 3in x 7ft 10in (4.65m x 2.39m) and the property has, it is throught, a large area to the side which is steep and proceeds up the hill and extends to approximately half an acre but in later years has become overgrown and has not been used as a garden.