3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale

Stepping in though the front door and into the large hallway, where you find stairs rising to the first floor. Straight ahead is the kitchen/dining room, fitted with a range of wall and base units as well as a recently fitted log burner. From the kitchen you have access to the utility room with space and plumbing for white goods, a separate coat/shoe storage space and a downstairs cloakroom. On the other side of the hallway is the dual aspect living room with patio doors out to the garden and an open fireplace in the centre.

To the first floor are three good sized bedrooms, one with a built-in storage cupboard and the largest benefitting from two sets of windows flooding the room with natural light. Completing the accommodation is the family bathroom, fitted with a modern white suite.

Externally the garden is beautifully planted with an array of mature trees and shrubs, a sunken patio sits in the middle of the garden with a large, gravelled area to the other side. The owner has also had a large timber garage/store fitted, perfect for additional storage, externally on the side of the house is also a further storeroom. To the front is driveway parking and space for a shed.

Wantage is a lovely small market town in the Vale of White Horse and has a good range of shops and services. Links with the past are very strong too - it is notable as the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849.

The town lies about 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Abingdon and a similar distance west of Didcot and is at the crossing of the B4507 valley road, the A417 road between Reading and Cirencester and the A338 road between Hungerford (and junction 14 of the M4 motorway) and Oxford. There are main line railway services from Didcot Parkway.

There is one state secondary school in Wantage, King Alfred's Academy, and some ten primary schools. There are also several independent schools in Abingdon, Oxford and nearby villages.

Wantage has a fine reputation for the arts – music, dances and poetry – and this is celebrated each year with an Arts Festival during the summer. John Betjeman lived in The Mead, Wantage (by Letcombe Brook) for many years and wrote poetry about Wantage. Thomas Hardy’s “Jude the Obscure” was set in nearby Letcombe Bassett where “Arabella’s Cottage” can still be seen.