3 bedroom house

Dating from the mid-19th century, Goose Green is one of a pair of Grade II listed cottages built at the same time and extended later. It has been in the same ownership and used as a second home for the past 37 years and although perfectly habitable does now require updating. The Cottage has two floors and attics and is built of local stone covered in painted stucco under a Welsh slate roof. It has retained some of its original fittings including working shutters, a window seat, flagstone flooring in the rear hall and parquet flooring in one of the property's three good-sized reception rooms. The kitchen is fitted with a range of units, a free-standing electric cooker and although more of a galley kitchen does have space for a small kitchen table. The garden room has a glazed door that opens onto the paved terrace at the rear of the house with the garden stretching out on two sides beyond the parking area. On the first floor are two double bedrooms and the family bathroom. The principal bedroom has an integral wash handbasin and windows on two sides with lovely views over the attractive, older part of the village and over the garden towards the vicarage and the open countryside behind it. The double, attic bedroom also has these views from its two dormer windows as well as exposed roof timbers.

Goose Green has a central but private position and large garden that provides a good degree of privacy. It is approached through tall, twin timber gates set in a high boundary wall. Adjacent to the cottage and the rear terrace is a tarmac parking area that has parking space for about four cars and beyond it is a single garage. The garden is split into two distinct areas. Closest to the cottage is the formal garden, which features a level lawn and a beautiful, mature copper beach. Behind it is an area that formerly contained a kitchen garden producing vegetables and soft fruit. However, sadly the garden has been let go in the recent past and therefore now presents a future owner with a perfect opportunity to create a new garden from scratch within an established setting bounded by a mix of walling and mature hedging and containing several mature trees including apple and an exotic handkerchief tree.

A37 3.5 miles, Dorchester 7.9 miles (Waterloo 2 hours 28 minutes), Sherborne 11.1 miles (Waterloo 2 hours 12 minutes), Yeovil town centre 14.8 miles, Weymouth (Jurassic Coast) 16.4 miles, Bournemouth Airport 33.2 miles. (Distances and time approximate).

Goose Green is situated on the western end of Long Street and close to the southern edge of the popular village of Cerne Abbas, which has excellent amenities including a village shop, two pubs, primary school and parish church. Dorchester is close by with excellent amenities including a train station with direct services to Waterloo. The village is also close to the Jurassic coast and has immediate access to the beautiful surrounding countryside. For schooling the CofE primary school in the village is Ofsted rated 1 (Outstanding) as is Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester and there's a wide choice of independent schools within a 15 mile radius.

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