2 The Elms

2 The Elms is a white cottage beside a red-painted terraced house in Salcombe, a dark red front door with stained glass panels and the number two.

A red armchair beside decorative clocks

The living room pairs a red patterned armchair with decorative wall clocks, red sofas dressed in windmill-print cushions beside the bay window, a sideboard finishing a corner near the hallway.

Two bedrooms with beach-hut cushions and bunks

Two bedrooms include one dressed in beach-hut print cushions with a television on a pine chest of drawers and a mirror, and a room fitted with a pine bunk bed and a bedside lamp. The bathroom has an illuminated mirror cabinet beside a glass shower cubicle, a vanity sink trimmed in mosaic tile.

A bay-window kitchen with tulips

A wooden dining table dressed with tulips sits in the bay window, the kitchen counter finished with a bread bin, toaster and electric hob.

A shell-decorated coastal cottage

A wall-mounted shell display box carries a beach motto beside the hallway, dormer windows looking out from the upper floor.

Sea views over the estuary

White Victorian houses give way to the estuary and green hills, a sandy beach cove backed by wooded hillside further along the coast.

Two bedrooms, an estuary outlook

2 The Elms looks out over the estuary from two bedrooms — a base for a couple or small family in Salcombe, with parking and a washing machine on hand for the length of the stay. It suits a couple or small family who want Salcombe itself to be the main event, not a backdrop.