We Want Shores House to be as welcoming and comfortable as your own home. As soon as you arrive, you’ll just want to collapse into the great squashy sofas set amongst warm Persian rugs. The main living room is huge, while the dining room has space to seat all twelve of you at the long table.

The kitchen with its solid oak cupboards and polished granite worktops is also enormous. It is double-equipped with two side-by-side ovens, two sinks and two hobs, while a breakfast table will seat six. Next to the back door is a shower room and drying cupboard for wetsuits and Mustoes.

Upstairs, Georgian period antiques mingle with old oil paintings. The two principal bedroom suites overlook the main gardens. The first has an en-suite Travertine mosaic bathroom with carved Carerra marble basins. The second principal bedroom also has an en-suite bathroom, making full use of more natural materials: polished slate, slabs of rough-hewn granite and plinths of 250 year-old Cedarwood. A third, family bathroom together with the ground floor shower room serve the four remaining bedrooms (two with double beds, two with twin beds). They all overlook the back lawn. A first floor study is perched like an eyrie over the front entrance. There you’ll find the small library, telephone and broadband point.

The first floor laundry room with washing machine and tumble drier hints at another aspect of Shores House. Behind a ‘Honesty Window’ you can see the sheep’s wool insulation that has been used throughout the building: over two tonnes in total. With just 1/8th of the carbon footprint of a conventional new building, Shores House was nominated by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors for a prestigious eco-sustainability award.

The gardens are large by Rock standards, fully mature and screened from the neighbouring houses by high hedges and trees. There is plenty of garden furniture and a gas barbeque.