A well-maintained detached period house in this popular and very friendly Northants village, excellent primary school, ideal location surrounded by lovely walks in open countryside. EPC exempt.

Please click on the property brochure below for full details of this property, or call Chris Mobbs at the Fine & Country Banbury office for more information.

Ground Floor Layout - A wooden door opens to the front hall with flagstone flooring, side window and further to the open plan living room. This bright double aspect reception room features an impressive Inglenook with brick backing, raised hearth and a 9kw wood-burning stove with oak beam above. There is a 2nd ornamental fireplace and a central oak staircase leading to the 1st and 2nd floor accommodation. Flagstone flooring, bespoke oak book shelving, ceiling beams with a T-post, exposed stone walling, TV point, wall light points, front and rear windows. Brick steps and door opens to the rear conservatory. This recent addition has a toughened glass safety roof, opening rear windows and a tiled floor. Light and power is connected with double doors to the terrace and rear garden. The main lounge connects directly to the vaulted dining area with exposed cross beams and purlins, brickwork and three conservation rooflights. Spacious enough for a large farmhouse table and eight chairs, exposed stone wall, side window. The kitchen area has white painted base units with a spice rack and oak work surfaces above with inset drainer.

Bosch electric fan-assisted oven, 4-ring electric hob and extractor hood. Enamel Butler sink, ornate mixer tap, plumbing facilities. Further eye-level cupboards, ceiling beams, slate flooring that extends through the dining area. From the kitchen, a door leads to the main hallway. This has an oak turned staircase to a self-contained area of the house. Slate flooring with a charming small wood burning stove and flue running through the upper floor. Two exposed stone walls, doors to the frontage and the office. This room is an ideal bright office, (but could provide an occasional ground floor bedroom if required), side window. The adjacent shower room has a corner enclosure with a Gainsborough shower unit, pedestal wash-hand basin, heated towel rail, low-level WC, slate flooring, side window.

First Floor Layout - Above the main hallway is an open plan office space with telephone point, often warmed by the stove flue, and well-lit by a large Velux window. There is a door to a loft area (located above the kitchen). On the other side of the office is a double bedroom with exposed purlin, rooflight and a low-level window with shutters, making it ideal for visitors or a teenager.

The other 3 bedrooms and bathrooms are accessed from the main staircase in the living room. The landing has exposed stone walling, ceiling beams, stairs to the second floor, two rear windows providing fine views across the garden. Bedroom two has a high beamed ceiling, there are front and rear windows. The spacious family bathroom has a roll-top claw and foot bath with mixer tap and showerhead attachment. Low-level WC, Savoy pedestal wash-hand basin, heated towel rail, tiled floor, fine beams, opaque side window. The adjacent shower room has a tiled floor and a shower enclosure with a shower unit, Savoy pedestal wash-hand basin, low-level WC, heated towel rail, shaving point, downlighters, ceiling beams, rear window.

Second Floor - The second floor has a small landing area with a Velux rear window. The main bedroom is a very attractive room with a vaulted ceiling with an exposed cruck-beam. There are low-level wardrobes with plenty of under-eaves storage cupboards, exposed stone gable and conservation rooflight rear window. Bedroom 3 is across the landing and is a lovely childs room. There is further exposed stonework and a cruck-beam set within the party wall, under-eaves storage, low-level wardrobe, side window and a rear rooflight.

Frontage, Outbuilding & Parking - The frontage is fully enclosed by low-level brick walling and close boarded fencing. It measures 61ft by 28ft, so offers parking for 4 standard vehicles on the gravelled driveway. There is a useful workshop/garage with wooden double doors and a pitched slate roof, light and power is connected. It has brick flooring and a mezzanine floor making it an ideal workshop (it does store everything a garage would do bar the cars!) There are well-stocked flower borders, shrubs, bushes and annuals planted. There is gated side access to the left of the cottage where the metal oil tank is situated.

Rear Garden - The rear garden is south-facing and measures around 80ft deep by 46ft across. Directly behind the house there is a brick built shelving unit and a recently built split-level terrace. This extensive terrace built from Indian sandstone has a 13ft 6 by 6ft 6 inset fishpond, there are French drains with steps up from the house. From here a gravelled pathway meanders around the silver birch trees to the rear post and rail fencing. There are level lawn areas surrounded by colourful flower borders. There is a smaller circular patio, and the garden is fully enclosed by wooden fencing down both flanks.

Location - Helmdon is a village and civil parish about 7 miles east of Banbury and 4 miles north of Brackley in West Northamptonshire, England. The village is on the River Tove and was famous for lace making in the 18th century. The village is flanked by meadows that separate the village into two. The parish includes the hamlets of Astwell and Falcutt and covers more than 1,550 acres. It remains a friendly and popular medium-size village with an excellent primary school within the village, state and private senior schooling can be found in either Brackley or Middleton Cheney. The Fat Landlord is the village pub and Saint Mary Magdalene is a mainly Gothic C of E Church.

Local Authority - West Northamptonshire Council.
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Council Tax Band F.
Current Payable £2,809.71 PA.

Services - Mains electricity, water, drainage, oil-fired radiator central heating, (Broadband current ISP is BT delivering a download speed of 45Mbps to the office and 60Mbps to the house).

Opening Hours - Monday to Friday9.00am - 6pm
Saturday 9.00am - 4.30pm
Sunday By Prior Arrangement

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Directions - From Banbury head towards the M40 (J11) on the east side of town. Approaching from Banbury, take the 3rd exit left signposted towards Brackley and Milton Keynes on the A422. Continue up the dual carriageway, taking the first left exit on to the B4525 Welsh Lane. Continue for around 6 miles, then turn left into the village of Helmdon via Station Road, passing over the old railway bridge as you do. Take the first right turning just after the village school and the pedestrian level crossing into Church Street. The cottage can soon be found, slightly set back on your right-hand side with a wide white metal gate across the frontage.