Tucked away down a quiet bridleway in a friendly village, Sun Villa is aptly named as it is drenched in sunshine for most of the day.

It has been transformed from its original three-bedroom single-storey layout by owner Isabella Burns who said: "I’ve lived here now for 34 years ago.

"It was built by a gentleman called John McWalters for his wife for their 25th wedding anniversary and is still known as the McWalters Bungalow. The name he gave it, and which is on the deeds, is Sun Villa, although I’ve never used the name.

"The sun is in the house at all times of the day, any room you go into. It start off in the living room in the morning and goes round to the kitchen and it’s there most of the time, from 10am to about 7pm or 8pm.

"There’s a little patio area at the back of the house which is completely secluded, it's absolutely gorgeous."

Isabella, a midwife at West Cumberland Hospital, has transformed the house during her time there. "I lived in Whitehaven for a while because it was convenient for work then Darcy Street in Workington then bought a house in Seaton. My youngest daughter Katy now lives next door to where I used to live with her two children.

"When we first moved to Quality Corner there was only the downstairs, the loft was waiting to be built into. It had one room and a loft ladder.

"It was a three-bedroom bungalow and we wanted a dining room so we took one of the original bedrooms for that. I already had one daughter, Kelly, so the two bedrooms suited nicely. When Andrew came along he was in his cot in the dining room for a while so we looked to the loft.

"We didn't carry out a lot of alterations, just used the space there was and put a staircase in. That did us for a while then we decided, probably in the early 90s, to put the house on the market.

"Absolutely nothing was moving at that time so we decided to alter the house we had. We put an extension on at both ends of the building, converted the garage which is now part of the living room, built another bedroom upstairs and extended out from the kitchen which is massive now.

"My husband Rodney Burns was chairman of the Round Table and well-known and we had many parties here back in the day. It’s a party house and a lovely family house."

All the rooms are very spacious - the lounge is a massive 34ft by 24 and the kitchen, 22ft by 20ft, leads into the dining room. An inner hall, utility room, bathroom and study/bedroom six round off the ground floor. On the second floor are five bedrooms, the master with an en-suite bathroom, and a third bathroom.

Isabella said: "I think this house would appeal to a family. All the rooms are big, there are the original beams upstairs which I think are quite attractive but the most important thing is it’s in the centre of the village, down a little bridleway so not on a main road and it’s safe for children to play out.

"The back entrance to the junior school is half-way down the bridleway and children at the infants' school would just have to cross one road, it’s less than five minutes away.

"It’s one of those houses that when you go in you just think, ‘I want to live here’. When it was up for sale we had to look for it and when we came down here we thought, ‘My goodness, there are five or six houses down here and we didn’t know that’. And that was after we’d lived in the village for a couple of years. It's so secluded."

Quality Corner, Seaton, is for sale at £265,000 from Cumberland Estate Agents. For more details see here .