Student Property Details

Hello 👋 

I have built a tiny home in my garden, with the help of a friend, and it’s ready to be lived in. It has a small kitchen area that is designed to be multifunctional and it has its own toilet with hand basin (the kitchen sink and toilet sink have hot water from an instantaneous hot water heater).

I’ve named it The Shed but it isn’t a shed, it has been built by hand and insulated to a high standard with double glazed windows and doors. The french doors open onto the garden facing the fields and valley beyond. We get sunsets all through the year with the winter sun setting on the south west side of the horizon and the summer sun setting on the north west side. The french doors face west, and there are no windows on the north side of the building.

The rent includes all bills except council tax - council tax is separate. Council tax is band B, and isn’t included in case the lodger is exempt. We do not have a TV licence because we don’t watch anything that requires a TV licence. The WiFi from the house reaches 

Heating is from a wood burner but we have a large supply of wood that has been drying out for a while now and if it’s dry enough you are welcome to use it. My partner is a tree surgeon and we’ve been collecting wood for The Shed (the house is heated solely by an air source heat pump).

The Shed can be unfurnished, or furnished with a sofa bed (wooden framed sofa bed that’s more comfortable as a bed - I have also made a new cover that integrates a memory foam topper), and I’m happy to kit it out with kitchen items such as plates/crockery. There is an induction hob in The Shed along with a large air fryer/oven.

You can have use of bicycle while staying here.

The current household is myself, Vik, and my secondary school aged child. We live with Cotton the dog, and Toto the cat. Two nights per week my partner and his 10 year old stay over.

As The Shed is a tiny home (small space for a home) I’m offering all of my kitchen appliances for you to use. The main house also has the fridge, freezer, vacuum, washing machine and tumble dryer, but I am open to getting a small fridge for The Shed - it just depends on how you want to use the space and what you already have. The bathroom is in the house where we collect grey water from the bath/shower to recycle to either flush the toilet or water the garden. 

We are trying to grow lots of wild flowering plants in the garden, alongside developing the veg patch and planting a range of trees (some fruiting). We have swifts nesting in the roof of the house and have a thriving slow worm habitat.

Porth Saxon and Grebe beaches are around 20 minutes walk from the house- mostly off road. There are buses to Falmouth. There is on road parking outside the house and I’m working on making space for one car to park off the road.

A little about us- we are an active household (dog walking, rowing, climbing, yoga, basketball…) and you are free to be involved in family life as little or as much as you wish. We practice gratitude and emotional awareness, and we work on our emotional resilience. I have been widowed for over 12 years and have raised my child alone although we have had housemates and lodgers for most of the last 9 years- Christian and I have no plans to live together. I’m a Renewable Energy Engineer doing a part time funded PhD in fluid dynamics and teaching at Exeter Uni (Penryn Campus). 

Any question, please ask.