Coastal & country homes

A house is a way of living near water

A house is a way of living near water

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  • Sandbanks

  • Canford Cliffs

  • Studland

  • Lyme Regis

  • Chesil

  • Purbeck

  • Branksome

(01) — The agency

We represent a small number of houses each year places where the light does something particular, where a garden runs down to the water or a lane ends at a field. We are not interested in volume. We are interested in the right people finding the right house, and in the long, unhurried conversation that makes that possible.

We represent a small number of houses each year places where the light does something particular, where a garden runs down to the water or a lane ends at a field. We are not interested in volume. We are interested in the right people finding the right house, and in the long, unhurried conversation that makes that possible.

(02) — Currently for sale

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For Sale

A waterfront house on the Sandbanks peninsula

Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

£6,950,000

5 bed · 4 bath · 3 reception

For Sale

A contemporary new-build above Canford Cliffs

Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset

£3,250,000

4 bed · 4 bath · 2 reception

For Sale

A period cottage in the village of Studland

Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

£1,250,000

3 bed · 2 bath · 2 reception

For sale

a cedar-clad house above branksome chine

Branksome Park, Poole, Dorset

£4,600,000

5 bed · 4 bath · 3 reception

For sale

a white modernist villa on the harbour edge of the Sandbanks peninsula

Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

£8,500,000

6 bed · 5 bath · 3 reception

For sale

an arts-and-crafts house set back behind the pines of branksome park

Branksome Park, Poole, Dorset

£3,100,000

5 bed · 3 bath · 3 reception

For sale

a penthouse above poole quay with the harbour at its feet

Poole Quay, Poole, Dorset

£1,450,000

3 bed · 2 bath · 1 reception

For sale

a thatched cottage on the heath above Studland bay

Studland, Dorset

£1,950,000

4 bed · 3 bath · 3 reception

For sale

a Georgian townhouse climbing the hill above Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis, Dorset

£1,200,000

4 bed · 3 bath · 2 reception

Under offer

a glass-and-stone house on the water at Lilliput

Lilliput, Poole, Dorset

£6,200,000

5 bed · 5 bath · 3 reception

Under offer

a clifftop house above the chine with a private lift to the sand

Canford Cliffs, Poole, Dorset

£5,400,000

6 bed · 5 bath · 3 reception

Sold

a converted boathouse on the harbour edge at sandbanks

Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

£3,800,000

4 bed · 3 bath · 2 reception

(03) — Why Marlow & West

Fewer houses, considered properly

Most agencies measure themselves by how much they list. We measure ourselves by how well we know what we list. Every house we take on is photographed honestly, written about clearly, and shown by someone who has walked its rooms in winter as well as summer.

Our clients are buying somewhere to spend a decade or a lifetime, not a quarter. That changes how we work. We answer the questions before they are asked, we tell you what a place is not, and we treat the sale as the beginning of someone’s life there rather than the end of a transaction.

(04) — Where we sell

A stretch of coast we know well.

Sandbanks

A slender sand peninsula between Poole Harbour and the open sea.

Canford Cliffs

A wooded clifftop village above the chines and the sea.

Studland

A heath-and-bay village on the edge of the Purbeck coast.

(05) — Journal

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Place

2026-05-18

On the light at Sandbanks

Counsel

2026-06-02

Buying a period home on the Dorset coast

If you are thinking of selling, we would rather see the house than guess at a figure. A valuation from Marlow & West is a morning spent walking the rooms, understanding what you have, and telling you plainly what it is worth and to whom.

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