Ashmore, Dorset, SP5

This four-bedroom semi-detached cottage is set back along a track in Ashmore, with a substantial garden and a timber garage. The brick and flint property has rooms arranged in a linear layout over two floors, including a kitchen/dining room, sitting room with a working woodburner, study, four bedrooms and a bathroom. The listing notes potential for cosmetic improvement and possible extension, subject to the necessary consents. Outside, a parking area sits beside the garage. The gardens include planted beds and shrubs, a lawn, fruit trees, raspberries and a compost area. There is also an outside WC and concrete hardstanding to the rear. The property is freehold and has mains water and electricity, private drainage, and oil-fired central heating and hot water. Its EPC rating is E. Ashmore is a rural village in the Cranborne National Landscape, near the Dorset and Wiltshire border. Local facilities include a village hall and cricket club, with shops, post offices and primary schools in Ludwell and Sixpenny Handley. Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum provide a wider range of services, while Tisbury station has rail services to London Waterloo and the West Country. Any extension would require the relevant consents.