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Smart Apartments Offer More Than a Touch of Luxury

The Oxford Times LETThursday, September 3, 2015 TINGS oxfordtimes.co.uk/homes An apartment in part of a grand Victorian house in Staverton Road, Oxford, is on the market at £1,250 a month A riverside penthouse at Osney Mill is on the market at £1,695 a month Smart apartments offer more than a touch of luxury By Gill Oliver and near Osney Lock. station and city centre. [email protected] It is also on the site of the No pets are allowed. now-destroyed Osney Abbey The property is available to and rubble and timber-framed let, furnished, immediately, TWO one-bedroom luxury structure believed to date from through Finders Keepers for apartments in converted period the 15th century still remains £1.695 per month. buildings are set in contrasting and was Grade-II listed in 1954. For more information, call locations. The flat in Osney Mill, 01865 297999 or visit www. The first is a riverside described by agents as finders.co.uk penthouse in Osney Mill, which “stunning”, offers loft-style The other apartment is part of once produced flour for bread. living with one double bedroom a grand Victorian house in Osney Mill was destroyed by a and one bathroom. Staverton Road and has plenty fire in the mid-1940s, and in There is also a mezzanine of period features such as high 2011, the four-storey level with study, which agents ceilings and bay windows. development was transformed say could be used as an from a former flour mill into 10 occasional spare bedroom. riverside apartments and two The apartment has an open- KEY FACTS houses. Parts of the original plan style kitchen and a light building have been kept as part living/dining room with a Osney Mill in Mill Street, Oxford of the site’s conversion into a balcony overlooking the river. £1,695 per month development of new The apartment also comes Finders Keepers apartments. with an allocated, undercover 01865 297999 The mill is on a branch of the parking space and is a five- Staverton Road, Summertown River Thames in Mill Street minute walk from Oxford train £1,250 per month.

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