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Area guide
Saltmarsh
The coastal edge. Timber cladding, dune grass and salt light. Houses raised against the tide line.
Transit
34 min to Central by rail
Schools
One primary
Cafés
One, seasonal
The coast road ends at Saltmarsh and the land continues for another kilometre as marsh, creek and dune before it becomes water. Everything built here is built with that in mind.
What was built here
Houses sit on timber piers, raised six to nine hundred millimetres above grade, with the ground left permeable underneath. Cladding is cedar or larch, unfinished, and it silvers within two seasons of going up. Windows on the seaward elevation are smaller than buyers expect — the light here is strong and arrives twice, once direct and once off the water.
Interiors run the other way: whitewashed pine, pale floors, rooms arranged to hold the long view without sitting in the wind. The best of them have a sheltered south-facing corner that is usable in April.
Living here
Timber here is a maintenance schedule, not a finish. Expect to inspect fixings and end grain annually, and to replace occasional boards on the weather elevation every decade or so. This is normal, and it is priced in.
Check the flood designation on any property, including where the access track sits — the houses are raised, the lanes are not. Tide tables are on the parish noticeboard, and everyone here reads them.