Price changed to £825,000
June 16, 2025
Listed for £850,000
March 22, 2025
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SERVICES & OUTGOINGS
All mains services less gas, Oil fired central heating
Council Tax: Dorset Council—Band G
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Broadband: FTTP - Superfast broadband is available - highest available download speed 80 Mbps, highest available upload speed 20 Mbps. (Openreach).
Mobile Coverage: Available via O2, Vodafone, Three and EE. For an indication of specific speeds and supply or coverage in the area we recommend contacting your own provider.
Flooding: The property is in an area at VERY LOW risk from River/Sea flooding.
Cerne Abbas is a popular village in the heart of Thomas Hardy's Dorset and is surrounded by rolling hills and countryside. The village is probably most famous for its Giant carved into the chalk hillside, but also has many places of interest including an ancient church, medieval abbey, Tudor cottages, village shop and three pubs. There is also a primary school and a doctors' surgery. A bus service runs to the towns of Dorchester, Sherborne and Yeovil. The main towns of Dorchester and Sherborne are about 8 miles equidistant where a wide range of facilities for education, entertainment, health and leisure can be found. Sport in the area includes golf at Came Down, Dorchester cricket, football and rugby clubs and sailing in the waters of Portland and Weymouth. Communications are excellent with main line railway links to London Waterloo from all the major centres, cross channel services at Poole, an airport at Bournemouth and there is a very effective road network.
Externally the property has much to offer with mature gardens, off street parking and garage/ studio. Abutting the property is a stone paved rear terrace providing the ideal alfresco seating/ dining space and enjoying an outlook over the rear gardens. The garden is mainly laid to lawn, interspersed with mature boarders, established shrubs as well as potting area with potting shed and raised beds. There is also an additional patio where the sun to rear garden can be enjoyed throughout the day. Approached via a paved pathway from the rear of the property is a most useful and versatile studio room benefitting from multiple power points and relative seclusion at the top of the garden making this the ideal office/workspace if required. At the time of the studio room being constructed is was deemed a habitable, therefore providing the opportunity to create further accommodation and potential income stream. Below the studio room is a garage/ workshop providing further offroad parking and storage with multiple power points and double doors opening to the driveway. The driveway provides off street parking for up to four vehicles.