17 St Elmo Court

17 St Elmo Court is one apartment in a converted white gabled house above Salcombe, its terraced gardens stepping down to a shared swimming pool with a wooded valley falling away beyond.

Stone steps climb from the garden path to the building's arched porch, the pool and its loungers visible through the hedging on the way up.

Inside, tucked under the gables

The apartment sits under the roofline, so several rooms carry that steep, gabled shape — a hallway with fitted wardrobes and an archway through to the sitting room, and a dressing area with a mirror and chest of drawers. A small white-cabinet kitchen opens to a café table, and a separate dining table sits by its own mantel fireplace, with wicker seating alongside for a second spot to sit.

Three bedrooms under the eaves

The three bedrooms sleep up to six: a double with a dressing table and armchair, a second with blue-and-white bedding, and a twin room set beneath a gable window. One of the two bathrooms is finished in blue mosaic tile around the bath; the other has a glass shower cubicle.

A balcony over the valley

A small balcony holds a breakfast table with an elevated view over the wooded valley and the village below — the same view the living room's blue sofas and the sitting nook look out on through the glass doors.

The shared pool and garden

Guests share the building's outdoor swimming pool and stone-clad garden, reached down a run of steps from the apartment. Salcombe's North Sands is a short walk further on.

Well suited to

A family or two couples wanting their own bedrooms but happy to share outdoor space — the pool and garden do the work a private terrace would on a smaller let, and the valley-facing balcony is worth claiming for morning coffee.