Entire avenue with eight houses is put up on the market in picturesque Cornish seaside city

An entire street in Cornwall has been put up for sale for £2million. 

Tudor Lodges in Looe, the village which serves as the backdrop for hit BBC One television series Beyond Paradise, has seven three-bedroom bungalows and a large detached three-bedroom main property.

With a total of 24 bedrooms, nine bathrooms and nine reception rooms on the freehold site, Pilkington Estates said it was a ‘rare and highly versatile opportunity’.

Six of the lodges, which are all wheelchair-friendly and level access, were built by Michael Tudor in 2006 on a section of his two-acre plot – which also boasted a hotel.

Mr Tudor, 75, let the bungalows as accessible holiday lets for 18 years before retiring in September.

The bungalows are three miles from the village of Looe, popular among Brits as a coastal Cornish staycation spot.

When the Daily Mail visited the village, shop owners said they could not wait for tourist season and visitors were more than welcome.

They said while some Cornish people may whinge and moan, they were delighted many Brits come there for a sunny staycation.

It was from the thriving tourism industry and hotel business that the bungalows and Mr Tudor’s holiday lettings business began. 

He bought a hotel on a two-acre plot, which included the site currently for sale, in 2002.

On the other part of the land was a caravan park for touring parties and Mr Tudor said visitors often came to ask if there was any disabled accommodation.

However the hotel rooms were entirely on the first floor and higher.

One hotel guest with mobility issues even had to sleep on the stage in the function room because there were no accessible rooms.

‘We saw the opportunity for accessible accommodation,’ Mr Tudor told the Daily Mail. 

He continued: ‘We got planning permission and got an architect to design level access lodges.’

A specialist accessibility architect designed the three-bedroom bungalows, which all have ‘lateral’ living spaces featuring level access, wide doorways, level-access showers and wet rooms.

‘It was a bit of the unknown spending all that money when no one had done it before,’ Mr Tudor said.

‘It was like a jump off a cliff.’ 

He believed Tudor Lodges were some of the first fully accessible purpose-built holiday lets in Cornwall.

In 2011, he built the seventh bungalow and in 2016 constructed the main house as a management building – he was previously managing the business from nearby Northwood.

After 18 years running the company Mr Tudor, 75, wound it down in December and listed the properties on the market.

He faced a difficult planning process to change the purpose of the lodges from holiday lets but they are now all designated as residential, meaning purchasers could move in if they wanted.

There are three plots with live planning permission, meaning a buyer could immediately build more bungalows, subject to the terms of the application.

It would be suitable for investors, developers or organisations looking for multi-unit accommodation on the Cornish coast.

The bungalows are available on the open market and could be used as private homes, long-term rental units, staff accommodation or specialist supported housing.

Just three miles from Looe and set on high ground, Mr Tudor said ‘it gets the sun morning, afternoon and evening’. 

Julie, who runs Tudor Holidays booking, told the Daily Mail Mr Tudor built the bungalows ‘to allow either people in care to come on their holidays with carers or family members who have become immobile through age’.

She added that because of the purpose-built lodges, families did not need ‘to hope that the bed was going to be there, that the oxygen was going to be ready’.

‘Everything is accessible, everything is designed that way,’ she said.

The listing said each bungalow had private parking and access to visitor bays, alongside private gardens and additional communal areas.

All properties are fully electric with no mains gas supply and there is potential to install electric air-source heat pumps subject to negotiation.

As well as the bungalows the site has the detached main house with three double bedrooms.

It could be owner accommodation, on-site management housing or adapted for administrative or commercial use depending on the purchaser’s needs.

When the Daily Mail visited Looe there was general excitement about the tourism industry, despite tension among some Cornwall residents about visitors. 

Juliette Doolan, owner of Quirky and Quirky Vintage, said: ‘If you’re a business owner, you depend on tourists.

‘If you’re Cornish and you retire here you’re probably not so keen on the tourists.’

Holidaymaker John, who lives nearby, said there was not much industry in the area apart from Plymouth, which lies 20 miles east of Looe, and the village had ‘got to be reliant on tourists’.

‘What else is there other than agriculture?’ he said.

‘In Looe they seem to embrace it. You can see even on a day that’s not peak summer season, it’s still bustling, still lots of people eating ice creams doing crab fishing, it’s good for the family, it has lovely beaches.

‘It’s got to be a real boom for the local economy. Beyond Paradise is here as well. It’s a lovely place to be. We’ve just been skimming stones down in the river.’

Although a few shop owners said they understood how locals may feel aggrieved by tourists, most said Cornwall was there to be enjoyed.

The tiny village attracts tourists in summer and is the setting of BBC television show Beyond Paradise, starring Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton.

Mr Tudor said Looe had even seen a Christmas tree put up in August as the series filmed its festive scenes.