3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Beautiful quiet location
- Extensive walking from the cottage
- Pretty garden with views towards Hambledon Hill
- Parking and Garage
The property is approached off a quiet lane onto a car parking area for several cars adjoining which is a single garage with up-and-over door with power and water and a garden shed. There is a small area of garden to the front bordering the lane with a picket fence. Approached from the car parking area, there is a path leading to the breakfast room with a delightful area of garden. This comprises lawn, an wildlife pond, apple trees and shrubs. The majority of the garden is to the side and to the rear and provides a delightful backdrop to the cottage. A terrace extends the full width of the rear facade, connecting to a secluded courtyard. There are steps up to the rear garden, with established and well-maintained herbaceous borders and lawns.
Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired central heating.
Council Tax: Band E
EPC: Band D
Local Authorities: dorsetcouncil.co.uk
Bessells Cottage is situated on the northern outskirts of Shroton, which lies midway between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum. It is a pretty and popular village with The Cricketers pub, a cricket ground, a large village green and a children’s playground. The neighbouring village of Iwerne Minster has a good range of everyday facilities, including an excellent post office/village store, a pub, a children’s playground and an excellent café (The Writers Block) at Clayesmore School. For a wider range of facilities there is the Saxon hilltop town of Shaftesbury to the north, and the Georgian town of Blandford Forum to the south. Both Blandford Forum and Shaftesbury have a wide range of shops including supermarkets, delicatessens, cafes, doctors and dental surgeries, libraries, an arts centre, veterinary surgeries, small hospitals and schools. There are mainline railway stations in both Tisbury and Gillingham (London Waterloo) and the A303 lies some 13 miles to the north giving access to the south west and London, via the M3.
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