Property Round Up By Helen Fisher

With Room to Grow a Large Pumpkin By Helen Fisher

AXMINSTER £500,000 WEST CAMEL £1,595,000

Detached bungalow with 2 large bedrooms, well maintained and benefitting from 16 solar panels. Living room with wood-burning stove, kitchen opening onto a large conservatory over-looking gardens. Many mature fruit trees and shrubs, plus timber outbuildings, summer house and 2 greenhouses. Attached garage and parking. Set in 0.25 acres.

Gordon & Rumsby Tel: 01297 553768

Grade II listed farmhouse dating from 1730, with 5 bedrooms. Period features inc: flagstone floors, fireplaces, window seats, shutters. Cottage with garage, tack room, workshop, pigsty and studio flat. Garden with small pond, orchard plus 2 paddocks and copse. Ample private parking. All set in 3.4 acres. No onward chain.

Knight Frank Tel: 01935 810062

MORECOMBELAKE GUIDE PRICE £1,250,000

A classic Arts & Crafts 5 bedroom house with studio and wonderful views over the Marshwood Vale. Open fireplaces, arched & bay windows, panelled doors and walls throughout. Mature gardens with a paved terrace with intertwining paths plus ornamental pond and greenhouse. A meadow with numerous fruit trees plus a veg and soft fruit area. All set in just under 3 acres.

Symonds and Sampson Tel: 01308 422092

BRIDPORT £500,000

A 3 bedroom bungalow in an enviable, tucked away position with distant views. Sitting room with feature fireplace and door into a conservatory overlooking the garden. Double glazed windows throughout. Mature rear garden with lawned area, raised patio and summer shed. Front driveway with parking and detached single garage. No onward chain.

Goadsby Tel: 01308 420000 BROADWINDSOR £240,000

A mid-terrace 1940s house with 2 bedrooms and workshop/ utility extension. Characterful features inc: picture rails and cast iron fireplace. A new oil-fired boiler plus uPVC doubleglazed windows and doors. A 100ft lawned rear garden with greenhouse, south-facing front garden with patio area. Within walking distance to all local amenities. Residents parking area.

Kennedys Tel: 01308 427329

BURTON BRADSTOCK £850,000

An individual detached Edwardian house with 3 double bedrooms. Set in an elevated position with stunning sea views. Bay windows, high ceilings, fireplaces and well proportioned rooms throughout. Lawned gardens with many mature trees and shrubs plus water feature, greenhouse and workshop. With a long drive, turning circle and parking.

Stags Tel: 01308 428000

Tim Laycock (left) and Phil Humphries of the Ridgeway Singers and Band with some of the musical archives at the Dorset History Centre. Photograph by Lyn Pullen. DORSET’s Ridgeway Singers and Band have three concerts in October performing songs and music discovered in the archives of the Dorset History Centre. They will be at the Dorford Centre in Dorchester, on Thursday 6th October at 7.30pm. On Sunday 8th, the Ridgeway Singers and Band will be at Wareham’s Lady St Mary Church, at 4pm, and the last concert is on Thursday 13th, at Poole’s St James Church, at 7.30pm.

The music group, led by musician Phil Humphries and actor, historian and musician Tim Laycock, has been collaborating with the Dorset History Centre to bring to life old music long hidden in its archives. Among the manuscripts are those of William Knapp, an important Dorset musician of the 18th century. One of his pieces being performed in the concerts was dedicated to the town of Blandford after a huge fire in 1731 destroyed most of the town.

Works from the early 19th century music book of Benjamin Rose will also feature in the concerts. Rose was a farmer and alehouse keeper from near Okeford Fitzpaine who wrote out a collection of catchy country dance tunes.

Other songs will be taken from the Hammond manuscripts, which contain a large number of songs collected in Dorset. Between 1905 and 1908, the two Hammond brothers travelled around Dorset by bicycle and collected nearly 700 folksongs.