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Dream home with remarkable sea views and all yours for £3million


With its thatched roof, manicured lawn and floral gardens it is the epitome of the chocolate box cottage.


Perched on a cliff-top in Christchurch, Dorset, south-west England, potential buyers need only turn 180 degrees from the rural idyll of the cottage itself to take in the stunning views of the Solent and the Needles.

The cottage, which is just feet away from a sandy beach, has been owned for nearly 20 years by mother-of-two Sandy Hollowood.


The cottage's owner says she is finally selling after a number of people over the years have knocked on her door and tried to buy it off her


The cottage is also full of original features

‘You will not find another thatched cottage on the seafront anywhere else. It is the perfect combination of country and seaside living.’

The cottage has a lounge, dining room, study, four bedrooms with three having en suite bathrooms, a large conservatory and cottage gardens to the front and back.

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Dream home with remarkable sea views and all yours for £3million


With its thatched roof, manicured lawn and floral gardens it is the epitome of the chocolate box cottage.


Perched on a cliff-top in Christchurch, Dorset, south-west England, potential buyers need only turn 180 degrees from the rural idyll of the cottage itself to take in the stunning views of the Solent and the Needles.

The cottage, which is just feet away from a sandy beach, has been owned for nearly 20 years by mother-of-two Sandy Hollowood.


The cottage's owner says she is finally selling after a number of people over the years have knocked on her door and tried to buy it off her


The cottage is also full of original features

‘You will not find another thatched cottage on the seafront anywhere else. It is the perfect combination of country and seaside living.’

The cottage has a lounge, dining room, study, four bedrooms with three having en suite bathrooms, a large conservatory and cottage gardens to the front and back.

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What a house and omg this view !!
I love the roof and cosy places, feels good to live here and more when winter is cold.
Look so peaceful and aware of crazy stressful life.

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Couple transform their cottage garden
into a twitchers' paradise
attracting a colourful menagerie
(and hundreds of birdwatchers)

By Luke Salkeld for the Daily Mail
18th February 2012

With just a lawn, no feeder, and few perches,
to most birds this bare patch of land –
pictured in the first image below
– was hardly worth even a flying visit.

But after six years of green-fingered nurturing,
this garden has been transformed into an avian paradise
for a huge variety of species.

Birds of all kinds of feather have flocked together
outside the home of Andrew and Mandy Bunnett,
including peregrine falcons, barn owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.


Mandy and Andrew Bunnett in their garden in Wickwar, Gloucestershire.
The couple have spent six years and thousands of pounds
overhauling their dream countryside garden


A sparrow hawk surveys the surrounds


A woodpecker nibbles on a bird feeder


A pheasant roams in the pristine garden

And where birds go, birdwatchers will surely follow,
bringing such demand that the house has been transformed
into a bed and breakfast to accommodate their many twitching visitors.

As keen ornithologists, the Bunnetts spent thousands of pounds
overhauling their half acre plot.

And such are the attractions of its five distinct zones – including a flower area, pond,
vegetable patch, as well as shrub and herb sections
– that it was recently crowned Britain’s Best Bird Watching Garden.


Keen bird-watchers come to see rare peregrine falcons, barn owls,
kestrels, and pheasants that flock to their garden.
Guests can stay at the pristine country retreat from £35 per person per night


Doves nest in a hanging basket


Two blue tits share a morsel


A woodpecker scans the terrain

Now offering bed, breakfast and birdwatching, Mr Bunnett,
a 45-year-old company director, said:
‘We have had quite a lot of people stay already
and we have only been open since November.
When we came here there was just a lawn with a few sheds in it,
but we had a plan and transformed it.

‘We like to think it is now a bird-watchers’ paradise.
It is lovely to see something we have worked so hard on give pleasure to others.’


The garden of Poplar Cottage is divided into five sections
including a flower garden, vegetable patch, shrub section and pond


A green woodpecker inspects the garden while a herrin soars.
Opening a B&B, the amateur ornithologists
have created a paradise for bird-watchers,
being crowned Britain's Best Bird Watching Garden.

The Bunnetts, who have a 19-year-old son,
bought Poplar Cottage in Wickwar, Gloucestershire, in 2005.
Looking out on to Lower Woods Nature Reserve,
it now hosts up to five guests a night, who each pay £35.

Mrs Bunnett, 49, a dance teacher, said:
‘It was a blank canvas.
We love nature and wildlife so we wanted to attract more insects and birds.

‘The views are stunning and the number of birds we see in the garden now is phenomenal.
There is a bird bath, a wood pile and an unkempt area
of pignut, wild red clover and wild fennel – ideal for honey bees.

‘There are hedges of hawthorn and blackthorn, with willow and conifer trees,
home to several ring-necked doves.


A kestral perches atop of a fence.
The cottage looks onto one of England's largest ancient woodlands

‘Every year swallows nest in the garage.
We have seen peregrine falcon, buzzards, barn owls, kestrels and lots of pheasants.

‘The garden is very peaceful and relaxing, full of colour and life,
but the most exciting experience for us is the sound of nightingales singing,
heard from April to June.’

The garden was awarded the title of Britain’s Best Bird Garden for December
by Bird Watching Magazine and is now in the running
to be crowned the champion for 2011.

The couple, who spent around £3,500 on the garden,
say the last ‘bird census’ they did recorded 27 species visiting in just one hour.


Baby birds lined up on a branch in the spring.
The pair have so many visitors they have opened up their home
as a bed and breakfast to cope with demand

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I love the serenity, tranquility, peace and comfort
of cosy thatched cottages and English countryside gardens.

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Peaceful cottage
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