THREE very different properties in the Helston area are up for grabs at a forthcoming auction.

At 29 Meneage Street, the former NatWest has a freehold guide price of £75,000 to £95,000.

It includes a banking hall, interview rooms, back offices, staff rooms and stores as well as a sizeable area of lawned garden. There is a maisonette which has been sold away on a long lease on the first and second floors.

Clive Emson auctioneer Graham Barton said: "It is in prime a location in a popular town centre. It offers graphic potential to investors, developers and builders for mixed commercial and multiple residential development, subject to the necessary consents."

Mr Barton has also hailed a property on the Lizard Peninsula as the "most unusual, versatile and picturesque coastal investment opportunity" to come to the market for years.

Steamers House at The Cove, Cadgwith, is going under the hammer with a freehold guide price of £100,000 to £200,000.

Units are already let at £2,900 per annum to local businesses, guaranteeing an income to the new owner.

He said: "Steamers House quite literally opens out on to the pebbles of Cadgwith Cove. It is a once in a lifetime chance to acquire probably the most unusual, versatile and picturesque coast investment opportunity to come to the market for years.

"A well-known property, it already benefits from three income streams and offers potential for some innovative occasional, or more frequent, residential use/development at the seaward end of the building subject to the necessary consents.

"The new owners may also simply wish to use the property to take advantage of the chance to spend time undercover looking out and enjoying the sea views whether it is a calm or stormy cloak."

An art gallery, crab shop and a fisherman's store are the producers of the rental income from Steamers House.

It is being auctioned jointly with Miller Commercial of Truro.

A third property, in Helston town centre, a mixed commercial and residential property has a freehold guide of £140,000 plus.

Located at 11 Meneage Street, the character three-storey building already returns £7,500 per annum from its residential component.

Its maisonette occupies part of the first floor and the entire second floor. The commercial premises, formerly a branch of Santander, are located on the ground floor with offices to the rear and on the first floor.

The property is being auctioned jointly with Redgrave Commercial of Truro.

Starting at 11am, the eighth and final of Clive Emson Auctioneers' regional auctions in 2018 takes place at the St Mellion International Resort, near Saltash on Thursday, December 13.

Visit https://www.cliveemson.co.uk/properties/west-country/ for more details.