Nirvana

Nirvana is a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse on Market Street in Kingsand, sleeping nine across four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The cottage runs over three storeys with sea views across the rooftops to Plymouth Sound. Kingsand Beach is 100m from the door. Sixty guest reviews average 5 stars.

The townhouse layout puts bedrooms across the upper floors and a sitting room with open fire on the entry level, with a second living space and dining area. Three bathrooms make it workable for two families travelling together. Wifi, dishwasher, washing machine, enclosed garden. Dogs are welcome. The accessible entry helps for guests who can't manage steep village lanes.

Kingsand and Cawsand are colour-washed twin villages sharing one harbour on the Rame Peninsula - "Cornwall's forgotten corner" - and the Cawsand-Kingsand stream marked the historic Devon-Cornwall boundary until 1844. Cawsand Beach is 300m round the seafront, and the passenger ferry to Plymouth Barbican sails from there Easter to October. Mount Edgcumbe Country Park's 800 acres of formal gardens and deer park sit a mile north; Whitsand Bay's three-mile cliff beach is 3.5 miles south-west.

Best for two families or a multigenerational group wanting a Georgian house in a walkable harbour village. Less good for buggies and small children - it's a townhouse with steep stairs between floors.