Listed Grade II and lying within the Conservation Area of Fontmell Magna, Christmas Cottage is a delightful period cottage that has been sympathetically restored and extended with meticulous attention to detail. Works have included re-thatching, re-wiring and re-plumbing and the addition of a large timber clad extension at right angles to the original building to create an impressive kitchen/dining room with two bedrooms and a shower room above. Attributes include Indian sandstone flooring throughout the ground floor, the replacement of all existing windows in the original cottage, a beautifully fitted kitchen with an electric AGA, a wine cooler, Neff dishwasher and an island with stone worktops. The property has underfloor heating via an air source heat pump together with a pressurised water system; in addition, there is separate ancillary accommodation (an imaginative conversion of the former garage) to create an impressive, vaulted bedroom/office with kitchenette and shower room. Christmas Cottage offers an exciting opportunity for a buyer to move into a property that has been re-furbished to the highest of standards and with real flare and imagination.

The property is approached off West Street onto a gravel drive with car parking. The garden to the front in bordered by an attractive white picket fence and is principally to lawn with an attractive curved brick path leading to the front door. The front facade is flanked by box and lavender borders. At the rear there is attractive brick paving extending around the side with steps to the lawn and bordered by raised beds with a variety of flowering shrubs faced with sleepers and hurdles, topped by trellis with laurel hedging.

PROPERTY INFORMATION

Services: Mains water and electricity. Septic Tank Drainage. Heating by an air source heat pump.

Council Tax: Band F

EPC: Exempt

Local Authorities: Dorset Council

Christmas Cottage lies in the heart of Fontmell Magna, a popular village close to the edge of the Cranborne Chase. The village has a thriving community together with a village shop/post office, a pub, a church, a village hall and a primary school. The village is close to the scenic Fontmell Down and the pretty Springhead Trust Gardens. The local towns of Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum both have a wide range of shops, banks and supermarkets together with secondary schools and cottage hospitals. There is a mainline railway station at Gillingham with service to London Waterloo. For further shopping, Salisbury is to the east, Bath to the north, Sherborne to the west and Bournemouth to the south; all are within an hours drive.