Property description
Why we like it:
Beautiful exterior with a stunning interior this detached period cottage offers huge amounts of character including exposed beams and gorgeous windows whilst the interior serves the modern family well with a quality refitted kitchen/breakfast room and modern bathrooms. The gardens are beautifully kept with large lawns, wide borders and various private areas to relax. There is also an incredibly useful oak carport with an annexe with guest bedroom above which is ideal for guests or those working from home.
What it offers:
From the recessed porch, the wooden front door leads into the hall, as you enter to your left is the drawing room which is a lovely light room featuring a leaded bay window to the side, painted ceiling beams and exposed floorboards. Across the hall is the sitting room which again is light and airy featuring a brick and stone fireplace incorporating a multi fuel woodburner and to the side the original bread oven, there are windows to two sides and oak floor boards. Adjoing the sitting room is the formal dining room which is currently used as a study with window to the front and rear, beams and stairs leading to the first floor. The kitchen/breakfast room was refitted in 2012 with quality wooden cabinets incorporating solid beech worktops and upstand by Andrew Lord of Ipsden, terracotta tiled floor, gas fired Aga and built in oven, hob, fridge and dishwasher. There are double french doors leading to the side courtyard and access to the utility room, cloakroom/wc and rear lobby leading to the covered side porch. From the first floor landing there are steps up to the master bedroom with built in wardrobes and views over the garden, bedroom two has a window to the front and built in cupboards with the family bathroom adjacent to it. Across the landing bedroom three connects with the fourth bedroom, these rooms share a further bathroom leading from bedroom three. Externally the gardens are an undoubted feature of this property and extend to just over a quarter of an acre, to the front is a pretty cottage garden enclosed by a hedgerow, to the side is a kitchen garden area with stone and brick pathways. To the rear of the property is a large lawned garden with borders, box hedging, wide herbaceous borders and areas for seating. To the side is a private driveway leading to the oak framed carport and to the rear is the annexe with a glazed sitting room with vaulted ceiling, woodburner, tiled floor and a shower room/wc leading off. There are wooden steps to the galleried bedroom with velux windows and a door leading to the external staircase.
EPC Rating: D
Location:
Brightwell-cum-Sotwell is a picuresque traditional South Oxfordshire village with many fine period properties placed along the many lanes which form the village, there is an award winning local pub the Red Lion`, a village shop, post office and a thriving village community. The nearby Thameside town of Wallingford has a large Waitrose supermarket, a variety of shops, restaurants and pubs together with a monthly farmers` market, a cinema and a theatre. Communications are excellent with access to the M4 Junction 12 at Theale and the A34 to Newbury and Oxford. Didcot Mainline Station is only 4 miles away with a regular service to London Paddington in approximately 42 minutes. There is an excellent choice of schools in the area including The Oratory, Moulsford and Cranford House Preparatory School, Radley and Chandlings Manor. Parents of children at the private schools in Oxford and Abingdon also find South Oxfordshire a convenient place to live with good transport links.
Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Purchasers must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.