Your’s for £60,000 - cosy and bijou, and with excellent transport links!

This gatekeeper’s cottage on the heritage steam railway at Colby has just been placed on the market with estate agents Black Grace Cowley.

Ballagawne gatehouse on Mount Gawne Road is being offered for sale by informal tender with a closing date of May 5.

The detached former steam railway gatehouse needs complete renovation.

There is, however, planning approval in place for a residential conversion.

Black Grace Cowley described it as a ’unique and interesting development opportunity’.

The property is only available for viewing on Wednesday and Thursday next week (April 26 and 27) between 4pm and 5pm on both days.

Viewings are not possible outside of these dates and times due to the railway schedule and the estate agent has reminded potential purchasers that it is an offence to trespass on the line.

Ballagawne gatehouse was listed as a registered building in 2014, because of its age and rarity, being one of only four surviving crossing keepers’ cottages.

Planning approval in principle was granted in 2014 for its conversion to residential use, including off-road parking and a bio disc sewage treatment system.

Full planning consent was secured in September last year, the application (15/01390/CON and 15/01389/GB) including proposals to repair and renew the roof, construct a new floor, alter the internal layout and install French doors and replacement windows and doors.

In a report recommending approval, planning officer Abigail Morgan pointed out the property had once been home for the gatekeepers and their family.

She said: ’The reinstatement of the building to a dwelling would be re-establishing the original use of the building. It currently appears dilapidated, worn, tired and disused. The works proposed and use of the building would bring the building back to life and would prevent the Registered building falling into further dilapidation.’