Dorset, Somerset &amp; Bristol


<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-country-house">The country house</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="749" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-waltonelmsKnightfrank81b8aba4-68e1-4a10-859e-ff07d2d77691-0-ezgif_Fotor-1000x749.jpg" alt="House for sale dorset knight franck" class="wp-image-104527" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-waltonelmsKnightfrank81b8aba4-68e1-4a10-859e-ff07d2d77691-0-ezgif_Fotor-1000x749.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-waltonelmsKnightfrank81b8aba4-68e1-4a10-859e-ff07d2d77691-0-ezgif_Fotor-800x599.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-waltonelmsKnightfrank81b8aba4-68e1-4a10-859e-ff07d2d77691-0-ezgif_Fotor-400x300.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-waltonelmsKnightfrank81b8aba4-68e1-4a10-859e-ff07d2d77691-0-ezgif_Fotor-768x575.jpg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-waltonelmsKnightfrank81b8aba4-68e1-4a10-859e-ff07d2d77691-0-ezgif_Fotor.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



<p>Not quite lord or lady of<em> all</em> you survey – though this late Georgian/early Victorian country house sits in three acres of Dorset countryside in Marnhull, near Sturminster Newton – but the extensive views over the Blackmore Vale towards the Cranborne Chase National Landscape are yours to enjoy. The house is a whopper. There are four reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room with walk-in larder, cinema room and large boot/utility rooms downstairs.  Upstairs just goes on and on and on. You&#8217;ll find five double bedrooms, a business <em>suite</em>, plus two more bedrooms and a self-contained suite with  sitting room and ensuite double bedroom in the attic (for grown up kids who won&#8217;t leave home?) Outside, there&#8217;s parking for your six cars, a heated pool, tennis court, paddock, orchard and a summer house. A stone cottage will do for your staff/granny/Airbnb guests.</p>



<p>So how much is it worth? Guess the price&#8230;</p>



<p><a href="https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/walton-elms-marnhull-sturminster-newton-dorset-dt10/cho012496954" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>SEE IF YOU</strong>&#8216;<strong>RE RIGHT</strong></a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-chocolate-box-cottage">The chocolate box cottage </h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-domus-thatched-cottage.jpg" alt="thatched cottage for sale wimborne dorset" class="wp-image-104524" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-domus-thatched-cottage.jpg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-domus-thatched-cottage-800x533.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-domus-thatched-cottage-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-domus-thatched-cottage-400x267.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-domus-thatched-cottage-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></figure>



<p>The Grade II-listed Old Well House near Wimborne and Pamphill is beautifully olde worlde on the outside. Inside, alongside picturesque beams and inglenook fireplace, it&#8217;s all sleek modern living. The thatched beauty, with kitchen/dining area, sitting room, garden room, study and three bedrooms (one accessed by its own secret staircase – cute), sits in beautiful landscaped gardens. And the eponymous old well? You&#8217;ll find it in a front garden enclosed by a white picket fence *aawwh*. See our insider guide to living in <a href="https://dorsetsomerset.muddystilettos.co.uk/best-places-to-live/dorset/wimborne/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wimborne.</a></p>



<p>What do you reckon? How much is it worth?</p>



<p><a href="https://domvs.co.uk/properties/sale/dorset/dorset/wimborne-dorset-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>HOW CLOSE WERE YOU? </strong></a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-cool-pad">The cool pad</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1200" height="800" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00knightfrankleighonmendip-ezgif.com-optijpeg.jpg" alt="House for sale near Frome Somerset" class="wp-image-104492" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00knightfrankleighonmendip-ezgif.com-optijpeg.jpg 1200w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00knightfrankleighonmendip-ezgif.com-optijpeg-800x533.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00knightfrankleighonmendip-ezgif.com-optijpeg-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00knightfrankleighonmendip-ezgif.com-optijpeg-400x267.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00knightfrankleighonmendip-ezgif.com-optijpeg-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></figure>



<p>This three/four bedder, built in Leigh on Mendip in 2024, has been designed with life&#8217;s pleasures in mind. Watch your favourite films in a private cinema with electric reclining seating for six, electric blackout blinds and sound and picture tech.  Work out in the commercial grade gym (though is that pleasure or torture?). Hang out in the open plan kitchen/dining/living room. Step out onto the terrace and gardens to cook up dinner in the outdoor kitchen. Pop yourself into the hot tub. Slip into the UV-filtered dipping pool. A detached one-bedroom annexe with a living wildflower roof (with built-in irrigation system, natch), and small paddock with a large storage shed complete the picture.</p>



<p>How much will you need to fork out?</p>



<p><a href="https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/a-pretty-and-peaceful-somerset-village-near-mells-and-frome-ba3/bth012408709" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>FIND OUT HERE</strong></a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-house-with-a-famous-connection">The house with a famous connection</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-lodestone-wow-property-BA112HE-04-1.jpg" alt="Property for sale frome somerset lodestone" class="wp-image-104508" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-lodestone-wow-property-BA112HE-04-1.jpg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-lodestone-wow-property-BA112HE-04-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-lodestone-wow-property-BA112HE-04-1-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-lodestone-wow-property-BA112HE-04-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/dorsetsomerset/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2025/01/00-lodestone-wow-property-BA112HE-04-1-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></figure>



<p>A house with an association with a famous person has a certain frisson, don&#8217;t you think? (Unless it&#8217;s a serial killer, that is.) Luckily we&#8217;re talking about Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti, who ran a school in this Grade II-listed end of terrace property in the heart of Frome back in the 19th century. Today, it&#8217;s a beautiful family home, with four beds, three receptions stuffed with period features (high ceilings, fireplaces, sash windows) and country comforts (AGA, woodburner), and a 100ft garden with terrace, orchard, veg plot and greenhouse. Find out <a href="https://dorsetsomerset.muddystilettos.co.uk/best-places-to-live/somerset/frome/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">what&#8217;s going on in Frome.</a></p>



<p>What say you to the price?</p>



<p><a href="https://www.lodestoneproperty.co.uk/property/elegant-family-home-in-central-frome/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>WERE YOU RIGHT?</strong></a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-period-townhouse">The period townhouse</h2>



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<p>Want to live the <em>Bridgerton</em> dream? We&#8217;ve found the perfect abode, a classic – and beautifully renovated – Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse in Percy Place in Bath. Dating back to 1790, the five-storey house has it all – built from Bath stone with tall sash windows, marble fireplaces, high ceilings, cornicing, stone staircase – and stunning views over the city and beyond. Alongside six (yes!) receptions, four beds and five baths, two vaulted rooms on the lower ground floor housing a cinema room and snug, you can catch the rays in a long south-facing garden. </p>



<p>Have a go, how much is on the market for?</p>



<p><strong><a href="https://www.knightfrank.co.uk/properties/residential/for-sale/percy-place-bath-somerset-ba1/bth012407893" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">GOT YOUR EYE IN? </a></strong></p>


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