The trendy Suffolk heritage coast has become highly desirable holiday and second home territory in the last few years. Beach lovers, writers, artists, families, walkers, cyclists and musicians have all fallen in love with this magnificent stretch of East Anglian shoreline.

1A Uplands is a sweet and stylish clapboard cottage on a quiet country track, less than five minutes' walk from the beach in the village of Thorpeness. It has an open plan living and dining area with a wood burning stove, a painted wood kitchen, a pretty blue and white-tiled bathroom and a contemporary double bedroom. The front garden is big enough for badminton, while at the back there's a sizeable wooden deck area with sofa for summer meals and barbecues as well as a garden.

Thorpeness was built in the 1920s with holidaymakers in mind, and has an eclectic mix of architectural styles. Its simplicity and brightly-painted clapboard houses are built to enjoy the best of seaside living, with many a balcony, deck or mooring jetty overlooking either the waves or the rowing boats, punts, dinghies and canoes on the Meare boating lake. The village has a well-stocked shop, a gastro pub with WiFi, a Beach House Cafe, a country club which offers temporary membership (tennis etc), a tea-room and a very well thought of golf club. Long walks and cycle rides, up and down the coast and inland, are available from the house.