Property description
A charming three bedroom canal side terrace cottage in need of full renovation, offering the perfect opportunity for a buyer to enhance and modernize the property. There is also potential to convert the loft into a more useable storage space and extend at the rear (subject to the usual planning consents).
3 bedrooms, bathroom, sitting/dining room, kitchen, study, garden.SITUATION This canal side property is situated in a popular side road in the North Oxford Victorian Conservation Area. Hayfield Road is a no through road with minimal traffic. Across the canal is a nature reserve and beyond, allotments and Port Meadow, a unique area of common land formed by the flood plain of the River Thames. The property is in close proximity to the University Parks and the River Cherwell and the city centre, with all the amenities associated with this cultural centre. It is very well located for the popular Oxford schools with nearby Walton Street providing an interesting range of shops and restaurants and The Phoenix cinema. The local centre of Summertown to the north provides an extensive range of shops, doctors and dentist surgeries, a public library and sports centre. Oxford railway and coach stations provide regular and frequent services to central London.
HALLWAY Matwell, understairs storage cupboard, stairs to first floor.
SITTING/DINING ROOM 16' x 11' (4.88m x 3.35m). Original feature fireplace with wooden mantel, original built-in cupboards, built-in shelves, radiator, sash window, picture rail.
KITCHEN 10'7\" x 7'5\" (3.23m x 2.26m). Telephone point, range of floor and wall mounted kitchen units, stainless steel sink with mixer tap, space and plumbing for washing machine, space and plumbing for dishwasher, space for fridge and freezer, built-in shelves, plumbing and space for a cooker, loft hatch, partly tiled walls.
CLOAKROOM WC, wash basin, tiled splashback, radiator, Worcester gas fired central heating boiler.
STUDY 12'8\" x 7'2\" (3.86m x 2.18m). Radiator, television aerial point, sliding patio door to the garden.
FIRST FLOOR
LANDING Loft hatch.
BEDROOM 1 11' x 10' (3.35m x 3.05m). Television aerial point, radiator, sash window, telephone point.
BEDROOM 2 13'1\" x 9' (3.99m x 2.74m). Radiator, clothes cupboard.
FAMILY BATHROOM Bath with mixer tap and shower attachment, WC, wash basin, tiled splashback, shaver point, wall heater, radiator, partly tiled walls, sash window.
BEDROOM 3 10' x 9' (3.05m x 2.74m). Television aerial point, radiator.
OUTSIDE The door from the kitchen opens onto hardstanding and a patio area which is down the side of the house, here there is an outside tap. The main area of the garden is laid to lawn with a rock garden and a pond. There are walnut trees and a Hazel nut tree. At the end is a garden shed and steps down to the canal.
DIRECTIONS From Summertown cross on to the Woodstock Road and proceed south towards the city centre, turn right into Frenchay Road and at the crossroads turn left into Hayfield Road and the property will be found on the right hand side. Postcode OX2 6TX.
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