3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale

A charming semi-detached, Grade II Listed, 3 bed cottage with sunny garden and parking just a walk directly to the Jurassic Coast with good local village facilities closeby


SITUATION: The property is located just off the A35 tucked into Duck Street which is a village lane leading to the Jurassic Coastline at Seatown. Seatown offers a small uncommercialised cove, a renowned restaurant, The Anchor, and gives access to the renowned South West Coastal Paths.

The village of Chideock has excellent local facilities including two pubs, Church, a Spar convenience store/post office, a village hall affording lots of events and there is the close by Felicity's farm shop.

The vibrant market town of Bridport lies just 2 miles (recently designated as the Cultural Capital of Dorset) to the east and Lyme Regis (famous for its Cobb and fossils) 5 miles to the west. Also, with walking distance are Langdon Woods, famous for its bluebells, Golden Cap a local landmark, and the beautiful and tranquil St Gabriel's Bay. The sunken lane connects Chideock to Symondsbury where there is also offers a popular holiday visitor centre.

The whole area is renowned for its scenic beauty and coastline and especially for fossil enthusiasts, with much of the surrounding land belonging to the National Trust.

THE PROPERTY comprises one of a pair of Grade II Listed cottages dating from the early 19th Century featuring coursed lias stone walls to the front under a slate roof with hipped gable end. This charming village home has been sympathetically renovated to retain rustic character features blended with modern bathroom and kitchen facilities.

DIRECTIONS: From the centre of Bridport travelling west along the A35, Chideock is the next village. Just after the centre of the village and travelling up-hill, the turning to Seatown will be found on the left-hand side. Chervil Cottage is the first cottage along Duck Street on the right.

THE ACCOMMODATION comprises the following:
A large, low-height ancient wooden entrance door with brass accessories opens to the:
DINING HALL which has a window to the front with deep window seat and secondary glazing. Fitted shelf unit with radiator cover below. A shaped staircase rises to the first floor and a flagstone step rises to the:
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM with wooden ceiling and providing kitchen and good-sized space for dining table, vinyl flooring and stable-type door to the outside. The kitchen area has the mains gas boiler fitted and modern floor and base units with wooden work surface incorporating a butler sink with mixer tap and wooden drainer, built-in oven and ceramic hob with cooker hood over and plumbing provided for a dishwasher. There is a window over the sink with deep tiled sill. Door and step down into:
SITTING ROOM with attractive stone fireplace with wooden mantle over and raised paved hearth with wood burning stove fitted. Double doors to outside rear yard and two windows to the east with seats.
FIRST FLOOR
LANDING with hatch to roof space.
BEDROOM 1 with secondary glazing to front window and additional side window and a decorative Victorian fireplace surround.
BEDROOM 2 with secondary glazed window overlooking the rear garden to the westerly views, five-doored wardrobe cupboard built in with storage cupboards over. Semi-exposed pitched ceiling beams.
UPPER LANDING with shelved cupboard into eaves. Airing cupboard with hot water cylinder and immersion back up, recently fitted with a new element.
BEDROOM 3 affording a good-sized third bedroom/office with former window now a display feature. Window overlooking the rear garden and pitched ceiling with exposed ceiling beams.
SHOWER ROOM renovated some 7-8 years ago and now providing a triple-sized shower cubicle with sliding doors, low window with deep sill, radiator, basin and WC built in to cupboard housing, former window now a display recess and fully tiled walls.

OUTSIDE
There is an outbuilding to the rear forming a UTILITY ROOM with toilet, sink and space for freezer and plumbing for washing machine.

Step up to LARGE PATIO AREA extending to the rear with further steps up to an intermediate garden area with stone open-fronted outbuilding providing a wood store, widening out to a further garden area well established with small trees and a lawn bathed in sunshine for most of the day. There is also a bunker and greenhouse. The garden has a stone walled boundary to the east and north with old doorway now shut off.

To the front is a part railed car-parking space.

SERVICES: Mains water, drainage, electricity and gas. Gas fired central heating. Council Tax Band D. Superfast Fibre Broadband approx 62-80 Mbps download speeds available with Openreach. Likely mobile coverage from all main providers according to Ofcom.

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