4 bedroom house
Piddletrenthide, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7QZ
Guide Price
£995,000
Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Grade II, Thatched Roof
Property Tags: Feed in Tariff
Land Tags: N/A
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Jun 2022
- Removed: Nov 2022
- Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Grade II, Thatched Roof
- Property Tags: Feed in Tariff
- Land Tags: N/A
Charming listed former farmhouse in the ever popular Piddle Valley.
Description
Kiddles House is Grade II listed and dates from the 17th Century. The property has cob, flint, stone and rendered elevations under a part thatched and slate tile roof. The house has been updated in recent years. The accommodation is comprised of two reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, study, two bedroom suites, two further bedrooms and family bathroom. The house retains period features including large inglenook fireplaces and many exposed beams.
In 1959 the American poet Ogden Nash wrote a poem about Kiddles House (then known as Kiddles Farm) and called it Paradise for Sale. Earlier that year he had spotted a small advertisement in Country Life magazine offering for sale a ‘small mixed farm with period farmhouse’ near Dorchester. The poem, first published in the 25th July 1959 edition of The New Yorker magazine, is lively and light hearted but it also has a sense of yearning for the peace and quiet of this place, where Nash is “sure the gods could not but bless, The man who lives at that address”. Perhaps it was the opening lines of the advertisement :
‘In the valley of the River Piddle, Kiddles Farm, Piddletrenthide’
that inspired Nash’s poetic imagination. He made good use of these lines, turning them around and ending all five verses with:
‘....Kiddles Farm, Piddletrenthide, In the valley of the River Piddle’.
In later correspondence with a local resident of Piddletrenthide, Nash wrote that he had had more letters about this poem than any of his other work.
Outside
Gravelled parking area. Garage with electric door. Greenhouse. Garden store. Useful open fronted cart house. The formal gardens comprise lawns, paved terraces, well stocked beds and borders, mature trees. To the front of the property is a small area of well stocked garden.
Location
Kiddles House is located in the popular Dorset village of Piddletrenthide which has amenities including two public houses, post office/stores and a popular primary school.
The nearby villages of Piddlehinton, Buckland Newton and Cerne Abbas also provide a variety of everyday amenities with Cerne Abbas having its famous chalk giant.
The towns of Dorchester, Sherborne and Poole all provide an excellent variety of shopping, educational and recreational facilities.
Communications in the area include the A35 and A31 at Bere Regis and mainline railway stations are available at either Sherborne and Dorchester, both of which have a mainline service to London Waterloo.
Sporting facilities in the area include golf at Sherborne, Blandford and Dorchester, horse racing at Wincanton, Exeter and Bath and numerous water sports can be enjoyed along the Jurassic coastline to the south at Poole Harbour and Weymouth Bay.
The area is also well served by excellent state schools at Sherborne and Dorchester and independent schools include Sherborne School for Boys, Sherborne School for Girls, Leweston, Bryanston and Canford.
Square Footage: 3,795 sq ft
Acreage: 0.33 Acres
Directions
From Dorchester, proceed in an easterly direction along the A35 and take the left hand turning onto the B3143. Proceed through Piddlehinton and into Piddletrenthide where you take the left hand turn into Church Lane. Continue along Church Lane and Kiddles House will be found on your left hand side on a crossroads.
Post Code DT2 7QZ.
Marketed by: Savills, Wimborne
Description
Kiddles House is Grade II listed and dates from the 17th Century. The property has cob, flint, stone and rendered elevations under a part thatched and slate tile roof. The house has been updated in recent years. The accommodation is comprised of two reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, study, two bedroom suites, two further bedrooms and family bathroom. The house retains period features including large inglenook fireplaces and many exposed beams.
In 1959 the American poet Ogden Nash wrote a poem about Kiddles House (then known as Kiddles Farm) and called it Paradise for Sale. Earlier that year he had spotted a small advertisement in Country Life magazine offering for sale a ‘small mixed farm with period farmhouse’ near Dorchester. The poem, first published in the 25th July 1959 edition of The New Yorker magazine, is lively and light hearted but it also has a sense of yearning for the peace and quiet of this place, where Nash is “sure the gods could not but bless, The man who lives at that address”. Perhaps it was the opening lines of the advertisement :
‘In the valley of the River Piddle, Kiddles Farm, Piddletrenthide’
that inspired Nash’s poetic imagination. He made good use of these lines, turning them around and ending all five verses with:
‘....Kiddles Farm, Piddletrenthide, In the valley of the River Piddle’.
In later correspondence with a local resident of Piddletrenthide, Nash wrote that he had had more letters about this poem than any of his other work.
Outside
Gravelled parking area. Garage with electric door. Greenhouse. Garden store. Useful open fronted cart house. The formal gardens comprise lawns, paved terraces, well stocked beds and borders, mature trees. To the front of the property is a small area of well stocked garden.
Location
Kiddles House is located in the popular Dorset village of Piddletrenthide which has amenities including two public houses, post office/stores and a popular primary school.
The nearby villages of Piddlehinton, Buckland Newton and Cerne Abbas also provide a variety of everyday amenities with Cerne Abbas having its famous chalk giant.
The towns of Dorchester, Sherborne and Poole all provide an excellent variety of shopping, educational and recreational facilities.
Communications in the area include the A35 and A31 at Bere Regis and mainline railway stations are available at either Sherborne and Dorchester, both of which have a mainline service to London Waterloo.
Sporting facilities in the area include golf at Sherborne, Blandford and Dorchester, horse racing at Wincanton, Exeter and Bath and numerous water sports can be enjoyed along the Jurassic coastline to the south at Poole Harbour and Weymouth Bay.
The area is also well served by excellent state schools at Sherborne and Dorchester and independent schools include Sherborne School for Boys, Sherborne School for Girls, Leweston, Bryanston and Canford.
Square Footage: 3,795 sq ft
Acreage: 0.33 Acres
Directions
From Dorchester, proceed in an easterly direction along the A35 and take the left hand turning onto the B3143. Proceed through Piddlehinton and into Piddletrenthide where you take the left hand turn into Church Lane. Continue along Church Lane and Kiddles House will be found on your left hand side on a crossroads.
Post Code DT2 7QZ.
Marketed by: Savills, Wimborne
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.