FIND YOUR DREAM COUNTRY HOME

SUNDEW COTTAGE, BARNHILL ROAD, RIDGE, WAREHAM, DORSET £550, 950

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A QUINTESSENTIALLY ENGLISH home, then this three-bedroom thatched cottage in the Dorset village of Ridge is a perfect fit. Duck through the small door and you’ll find yourself in a beamed kitchen with Rayburn stove and oak floors. From the window seat here, you can admire the beautifully planted front garden, which wraps around the house, leading to a rosecovered arbor at the back. The living room has an open fireplace at one end, with a ‘secret’ snug behind it, and a woodburner at the other. Both are perfect to warm up beside after a fresh spring walk in the nearby Arne Nature Reserve, home to 500 types of flowering plants. Surrounded by so much beauty, it would be easy to forget the outside world exists, especially as the cottage is tucked away down its own gated driveway. But when you do feel like venturing out, the market town of Wareham is less than two miles away.

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