5 bedroom detached house for sale

Rooms

About The House Cont'd
The front door opens to a porch with a walkthrough to the entrance hall with stairs to the first floor landing and a cloakroom. Doors from the hall access the office and dining room, both of which have doors to the sitting room, the games room, and the kitchen/breakfast/ family room. A door at the rear of the kitchen area opens to the utility room which in turn has doors to the pantry and the second ground floor cloakroom. The third, gardener’s cloakroom is behind the pantry, accessed from the garden. All five bedrooms lead off the first floor landing; the principal bedroom suite includes a walk-in- wardrobe and there is an en suite bathroom. Also leading off the landing are a family bathroom and a shower room. The solid oak panelled doors throughout the house are contemporary and match the staircase which has an exposed oak handrail over modern glazed panels.

Ground Floor
The partially glazed front door has flanking windows and opens to a porch area with windows on each side. The entrance hall has a wooden floor, and under the staircase is an open area for hanging coats. An archway accesses the end of the hall which leads to the first two piece cloakroom, with an obscured window over the rear.

Open Plan Kitchen/Breakfast/Family Room
The current owners extended the house in 2000, adding the kitchen and family area, the utility room, all with modern insulation and matching ceramic tiles. The open plan area is dual aspect and has an exposed London stock brick mantel with a bressummer over the four-oven gas Aga. The kitchen has contemporary Neff base and wall units, including push-and-pull drawers, with Corian worksurfaces, splashbacks, and window sills, and a one-and-a-half Corian sink. The central island has matching worksurfaces, a breakfast bar, and an inset induction hob with a feature pendant Gemini extractor fan above. Integrated Neff appliances include a slide-and-glide oven, a coffee machine, and a warming drawer; there is a Caple wine fridge and space for an American style fridge/freezer. Overlooking the front, the family area has room for relaxed seating and the breakfast area, with the same aspect, has space for a table seating at least ten and access to the larder. There are built-in speakers.

Utility Room and Pantry
A door from the kitchen area leads to the utility room which is over 15 ft. long and has a side window. Cottage doors open to the pantry and to the second ground floor two piece cloakroom with an obscured window to the rear and coat hooks. An external side door opening to hardstanding is convenient for accessing the drive and garage. The utility room has fitted Wren units and a high spec marble effect worksurface with an inset stainless steel sink beneath a window overlooking the side. There are an integrated Zanussi washing machine and a CDI tumble dryer. Cupboards house the electrical fuse boxes and the five-year-old Baxi gas boiler which heats the water and the radiators throughout the house. The over 7 ft. by nearly 5 ft. walk-in pantry has a window over the side and deep counter-height traditional marble shelving; there are also fitted shelves.

Sitting Room
The largest reception room measures over 27 ft. by over 18 ft. and has an over 8 ft. ceiling making it suitable for entertaining. The room is triple aspect with windows overlooking the front drive and the side and rear gardens. As elsewhere in the house, the size and number of the windows means that the room takes full advantage of natural light. The original inglenook style fire place takes up much of the northwest wall and has a substantial exposed bressummer above, a flagstone hearth, and an inset wood burning stove.

Games Room
At the rear of the house and accessed from the end of the entrance hall or conveniently from a door in the rear of the breakfast area, the nearly 28 ft. by over 14 ft. family room is dual aspect and has two sets of French doors opening to the patio and a window overlooking the rear garden. The room has solid wooden flooring and a London stock brick fireplace with a flagstone hearth and an inset wood burning stove. (Please note the built-in furniture in the room is not included.)

Dining Room and Office
Both the dining room and the office can be accessed from doors in the entrance hall and the sitting room, which contributes to the ease of flow through this part of the ground floor. The dining room is L-shaped with a wooden floor and has a window to the side and a French door opening to the patio. The office, has a window which looks over the driveway onto a village green. It has fitted office furniture along three walls made by a local company, that includes two desks, bookshelves, and drawers with glazed shelved storage above.

First Floor
Over the staircase at the front of the house is a window, matched by a window overlooking the rear garden on the opposite side of the landing. There is a built-in, double-doored airing cupboard housing the hot water tank, and access to a boarded loft with a ladder. All five bedrooms and two bathrooms lead off the landing but bedrooms two and three are accessed via a spur off the main landing with two steps up and beneath one of two arches in the landing.

Principal Bedroom Suite
Measuring over 28 ft. by over 21 ft., the L-shaped principal bedroom includes a walkway with a window and doors to the walk-in-wardrobe and the en suite five piece bathroom. Along the same wall, in the bedroom, is a second windows overlooking the patio and garden and French doors open to a Juliet balcony with a glazed balustrade providing views over the garden and the brook. There is fitted bedroom furniture comprising a dressing table, cupboards, and drawers. Speakers are fitted in the bedroom and bathroom. A door opens to the over 14 ft. deep walk-in-wardrobe with built-in shelving and hanging spaces. The en suite, fully tiled bathroom has ceramic tiles on the floor and a Velux window. Double basins are in a vanity unit with storage drawers beneath and cupboards above. The room has a tile-sided panel bath, a corner shower cubicle with an Aqualisa shower, a WC, and a heated towel rail.

Bedrooms Two and Three and Family Shower Rooms
Dual aspect bedroom two was originally the principal bedroom and measures nearly 17 ft. by over 16 ft. It has views over the side garden and at the front, views over the village cricket green towards the Chilterns. One wall is fitted with three floor-to-ceiling wardrobes with double doors. Bedroom three is also dual aspect and overlooks the side and rear garden and has fitted wardrobes. Bedrooms two and three share the family shower room which has an obscured window over the rear garden and a raised internal window allowing the landing to borrow natural light. This modern, fully tiled shower room has an obscured window over the garden. It has a basin in a hanging vanity unit with storage below and a touch light mirror above, a concealed cistern hanging WC, a walk-in shower with a glazed screen and an Aqualisa shower, and a heated towel rail.

Bedrooms Four and Five and Family Bathroom
Of approximately the same size, double bedrooms four and five are on either side at the top of the staircase, both have windows overlooking the front drive and bedroom five has a built-in floor-to-ceiling wardrobes with double doors and cupboards above. Both rooms share the family bathroom which has a Velux window and fully tiled walls matching the ceramic tiled floor. There is a panel bath with a separate shower cubicle, a WC, and a heated towel rail. The modern circular basin is set on a contemporary steel and glass stand.

Garage/Workshop
The detached double garage has ample space for three to four cars accessed from the drive via double timber up and over doors at the front. Timber framed with wood cladding, the garage has a felt roof, a concrete floor, and a window to the side. At the rear of the garage, accessed by a personnel door, is a workshop. The building has light and power connected and a lean-to woodstore on the right hand side.

Garden Shed
The timber garden shed with a pitched felt roof and concrete floor is behind the property, and is mainly used for garden storage. The double doors in the gable end are readily accessible from the patio and there are double windows overlooking the rear area of garden.

Gardens
Leading immediately off the village green, the property is approached through five-bar timber gates opening to the gravel driveway. This drive passes round the front of the house and through another timber gate to the gravel area ahead of the garage on the southeast side of the house. Altogether, there is room to park up to a dozen cars. From the drive, a path continues right of the garage and across a timber bridge over the brook into a wooded play area. This space, with a children’s timber climbing frame, has mature indigenous trees such as yews and holm oaks, and a post and rail boundary between the neighbouring pastureland. Beyond the woods, the path continues over another bridge to the main garden which is mainly laid to lawn, delineated by the brook with an area of bog garden alongside. The main garden is bordered by fencing and a mixed hedge. A south- facing paved patio is adjacent to the rear of the house and extends to a seating area with a raised pond built from (truncated)

Situation and Schooling
As well as a village green, which the house overlooks, Kingston Blount village has a cafe, a farm shop, a village hall, a forest school and a cricket ground. Aston Rowant Church of England School is approximately 1.5 miles away (or a 0.5 mile walk across a field) and the property is in catchment for Lord Williams’s School in Thame. Chinnor (1.5 miles) has shops, primary schools, GP surgeries, restaurants, and public houses. Buses for London airports and Oxford Tube coaches to central London depart from Lewknor (1.9 miles).