This Italianate hideaway was once part of a country club and is now a luxury coastal apartment with a cliffside tidal pool. 

Merlin, in Newquay, is an apartment in Lewinnick Cove House, a cliffside mansion built by a lawyer named Baker in the early 1900s. 

The property was designed to be in the style of a Romanesque villa and was lived in by the Bakers until it became a country club, later being divided into four apartments. 

Parts of the cliff were carved out to create terraces for a tennis court, marble follies, and pools - including a tiled sea water pool. 

Merlin is entered through a colonnaded stone corridor, opening into a reception room with high ceilings, curved walls and a Tuscan column. 

Beyond the reception room is a kitchen and dining area, with a double baking oven and crushed shell rendered walls. 

Double glass doors lead into a lemon-shaped ballroom which includes seating, gaming and office areas, and features a limestone open fire and six arched windows, plus octagonal white columns and oak parquet flooring. 

On one end of the apartment is the principal bedroom, which has three sea-facing arched windows and coloured glass doors to a dressing area and an en-suite bedroom. 

To the other end of the apartment are two double bedrooms and two bathrooms, while completing the accommodation is a utility room. 

Outside, there is a rear cliffside garden with symmetrical pools, seating alcoves and sculptural wave steps. 

There is also a tidal natural sea water pool which is large enough for swimming, and a small disused changing room, as well a a shared drive and parking court. 

The property is for sale with Savills for a guide price of £850,000.

Sean Anderson of Savills Cornwall commented: “With only five apartments within Lewinnick Cove House, this is a rare opportunity to buy a completely unique home in an incredible location on the northern side of the Pentire Head peninsular. 

“The sea views are dramatic and far-reaching, and the tidal pool is a fantastic asset.”