Devon, £1.95 million
here’s a glorious double dose of light to be had at The Haven, built on a wooded fringe of the River Yealm, where the sun’s reflection on the water almost rivals the real thing above. Bringing ‘the outside in’ is the ethos here, with maxi-mised opportunities to step out into the waterside garden, from which steps lead down to the foreshore, a shared quay and a running