For sale: houses by the sea in the south-west Location: Homestone, South Town, Dartmouth Guide price: £2.35m Agent: Marchand Petit (01803 839190) This spacious home, with wonderful views, is not your typical shore-front cottage. It is a striking contemporary building, located where the River Dart meets the sea. It has five bedrooms, a garden and a private dock, so you can sail your guests right up to dinner. Hang a fishing rod out of the window, and you might even catch it. Dartmouth has all the amenities you'd expect of a bustling seaside town, as well as good rail and road connections to the rest of the country.