Entire street with eight homes is put up for sale in picturesque Cornish seaside town

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

Tudor Lodges in the village of Looe, which forms the backdrop for BBC One’s popular 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 across the property, Pilkington Estates said it was a ‘rare and highly versatile opportunity’.

Six of the lodges, all wheelchair-friendly and with level access, were built by Michael Tudor in 2006 on part of the two-acre site which also houses a hotel.

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

The bungalows are 3 miles from the village of Looe, popular with Brits as a place to stay on the Cornish coast.

When the Daily Mail visited the village, shop owners said they were looking forward to the tourist season and visitors were welcomed.

Despite the groans and moans of some Cornish people, they said they were pleased that so many Brits were heading there for a sunny stay.

Michael Tudor, 75, built the bungalows in 2006 and retired from the vacation rental in December.

All seven bungalows are fully electric and have private parking and garden areas.

Planning permission exists to build more bungalows on the site with extra space available

Bungalows and Mr Tudor’s holiday rental business began with the booming tourism industry and hotel business.

In 2002, he purchased a hotel on a two-acre plot of land that includes the site currently for sale.

On the other side of the property was a caravan park for traveling parties, and Mr Tudor said visitors often came to ask if there was disabled accommodation.

However, all hotel rooms were on the first floor and higher.

One hotel guest with mobility issues even had to sleep on 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 obtained planning permission and hired an architect to design the entry level lodges.’

A specialist accessibility architect designed the three-bedroom bungalows with ‘side’ living areas, all with level access, wide doors, level access showers and wet rooms.

“It was a bit of an unknown to spend this much money when no one had done it before,” Mr. Tudor said.

‘It was like jumping off a cliff.’

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

In 2011, he built the seventh bungalow, and in 2016 he built the main house as the administration building; he previously ran the business from nearby Northwood.

After running the company for 18 years, Mr Tudor, 75, closed the company in December and put the properties on the market.

It faced a difficult planning process to change the lodges’ purpose from holiday lets but they are now all designated as residential, meaning buyers can move in if they wish.

There are three plots with live planning permission; This means that, depending on the application conditions, a buyer can immediately build more bungalows.

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

Bungalows are built with accessibility and property-level access in mind, as well as other mobility features

The main house has three double bedrooms and can be adapted to the owner’s accommodation, on-site management housing or the buyer’s needs.

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

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

Julie, who handles Tudor Holidays bookings, told the Daily Mail that Mr Tudor built the bungalows ‘to enable people in care to come on holiday with their carers or family members who are inactive due to age’.

He added that thanks to specially built hostels, families do not have to ‘hope that the bed will be there, the oxygen will be ready’.

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

Each bungalow has access to private gardens and additional common areas, as well as private parking and visitor areas, the listing said.

All properties are fully electric with no mains gas supply and the potential for electric air source heat pumps to be installed, subject to negotiation.

As well as the bungalows, the site includes three double bedroom detached main houses.

Depending on the buyer’s needs, it may be owner accommodation, on-site management housing, or adapted for administrative or commercial use.

The village of Looe is the setting for BBC One’s Beyond Paradise starring Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton

With a busy seaside and lovely sandy beach, people living and working in Looe hope tourists will choose it for accommodation

Quirky and Quirky Vintage owner Juliette Doolan (pictured) said: ‘If you’re a business owner, you’re dependent on tourists.’

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

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

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

Holidaymaker John, who lives nearby, said there wasn’t much industry in the area apart from Plymouth, which is 20 miles east of Looe, and the village ‘must be dependent on tourists’.

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

They seem to have adopted this in ‘Looe’. You can see it even on a non-peak summer day, the place is still lively, there are still lots of people eating ice cream and fishing for crabs, it’s good for the family, it has beautiful beaches.

‘It should be a real boom for the local economy. Beyond Heaven is also here. It’s a nice place to be. ‘We were just scraping stones from the river.’

Most said Cornwall was there to have fun, although a few shopkeepers said they understood how locals suffered from tourists.

The small village attracts tourists during the summer months and is the setting for the BBC television program Beyond Paradise, starring Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton.

Mr Tudor said Looe even saw a Christmas tree put up while the series was filming its festive scenes in August.