Location

A spacious individually designed house occupying a convenient location in the centre of Wool village.

This popular Dorset village offers a good range of amenities including convenience stores, two public houses, pharmacy, doctor's surgery, first schools, library and importantly a mainline railway station with a service to London Waterloo.

The same railway line connects the pretty riverside walled Saxon town of Wareham 5 miles away and the larger towns of Weymouth, Dorchester and Poole some 15 miles equidistant. Local bus services run frequently throughout the year with augmented timetables during the summer months.

The local landmark beaches of Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door are some five miles from the house, part of the Jurassic Coast UNESCO World Heritage Site starting at the stunning Studland Beach. Other local attractions include Monkey World and the Tank Museum in the adjacent village of Bovington. For the more active there are miles of walking trails, the spectacular Isle of Purbeck Golf Course and two other local Golf Clubs.

The A31 which leads on to the M27 and M3 to London can be joined at Bere Regis about 5 miles away.

Description

A spacious and well-presented individually designed family house in this popular village. Welle Cottage was built in 2000 to a good specification and has appealing elevations of mellow brickwork under a slate roof. The house offers spacious accommodation with generous room sizes. The house has the benefit of mains gas fired central heating and the double glazed windows, porch and conservatory are powder coated aluminium. Internal doors skirtings and architraves are all natural wood, and there is an attractive wood staircase with turned balustrading.

A glazed entrance porch provides coat storage. The wood front door opens into the entrance hall, with engineered oak flooring and guest cloakroom. The sitting room has a feature brick fireplace with log burner and French doors lead through to the conservatory. This has underfloor electric heating, a door to the drive, and double doors to the terrace and rear garden. The study/morning room has engineered oak flooring and fitted bookshelving. The good size kitchen/ dining room has a tiled floor and is fitted with a range of modern units, an electric Everhot two oven stove, and two ring gas hob with extractor hood over. The dining area has French doors to the terrace and a door to the utility room which has a sink, Viessman gas boiler, plumbing and space for washer, and a useful understairs cupboard.

A staircase with wood balustrading leads up to the first floor landing. The generous main bedroom has custom fitted wardrobes and an en suite shower room, there are three further bedrooms, one with built in wardrobe and another with a large eaves cupboard, and a family bathroom with pine panelled walls. The loft is boarded and easily accessible with the loft ladder.

The house occupies a corner plot, and has a good size shingle driveway with parking for several cars leading to the detached Double Garage. This is built in keeping with the house and has a loft room over, ideal as a playroom or home office. The front garden is laid to lawn with a variety of shrubs and a summer house. The secluded well stocked rear garden has a paved terrace accessed from both the dining area and conservatory, and a small stream running along the boundary.

Directions

From Wareham - proceed west on the A352 for about 4.5 miles. Proceed over the level crossing and turn immediately left. Follow this road as it bears around to the right, and along for about 300m. Turn right into Duck Street and Welle Cottage is the first house on the right.

From the A31 – at Bere Regis, turn left, and then at the next mini roundabout turn right into the village, before proceeding south signposted to Wool for about 4.5 miles. Turn right at the end into Wool and proceed over the level crossing. Turn immediately left and follow this road as it bears around to the right, and along for about 300m. Turn right into Duck Street and Welle Cottage is the first house on the right.