Country Life: "A picture-perfect thatched cottage tucked away in Dorset's Blackmore Vale. Near the village of Blandford Forum, this wonderful thatched cottage is for sale at £835,000. Julie Harding takes a look".
"The village of Winterborne Stickland is sited in a chalkland valley on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, sandwiched between Blandford Forum and Milton Abbas, where the views are invariably glorious and far-reaching. It is a fitting setting for the equally pretty Grade II-listed thatched Mill House, which itself is set in more than three-quarters of an acre, some of it sweeping lawns.
"Buying Mill House will be like purchasing a slice of history, because there was a mill listed at Stickland in the Domesday survey, probably on the same site as this 2,300sq ft period house.
"A little more recently, in the 1500s, the core of this cottage was built and the agent comments: ‘As you might imagine with a house that is more than 400 years old, there have been alterations and additions and you can read the history by looking at the mix of stone, tile and timber floors, huge beams, oak panelling and wonderful fireplaces.’ Mill House is on the market with Jackson-Stops Blandford Forum.
https://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/properties/20691273/sales/blandford
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/a-picture-perfect-thatched-cottage-tucked-away-in-dorsets-blackmore-vale
