The fairytale cottage in the English countryside where Goldilocks was dreamed up is on the market for $2 million

This home is just so cute and enchanting that it inspired its owner to write a fairytale.

The cottage, with its thatched roof, was built around 300 years ago and is where the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears was conceived. It’s now on the market for £1.15 million ($2.02 million). 

The home in Dorset in south-west England is where author and Poet Laureate Robert Southey lived with his wife Edith from 1799 to 1805, when he was in his 20s.

Southey had been telling the story of Goldilocks to audiences in the early 1800s and he finally committed it to paper in 1837 as part of a volume of his writings called The Doctor.

The four-bedroom house would be just right for a mama and a papa and at least one baby bear. 

The kitchen has a separate breakfast room, suitable for eating porridge.

The house has a large formal dining room with a fireplace, next to a cinema room with projector and screen.

Upstairs, each double bedroom has been individually designed.

Outside there is a sun verandah – perfect for reading and writing more fairytales – and a decked terrace and courtyard for entertaining, as well as extensive lawns. 

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