Exceptional Georgian Style, Village Home
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Exceptional Georgian style, village home Shipton Standing, Shipton-Under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 6DG Freehold 4 reception rooms • study • kitchen/dining room utility room • cloakroom • games room • 6 bedrooms 2 shower rooms • bathroom • double garage gardens and grounds of about an acre Charlbury Station 6 miles independent schools. Junior (London, Paddington from schools include the village 75 minutes), Chipping Norton primary school, Windrush 7 miles, Witney 9 miles, Oxford Valley School and Kitebrook 22 miles, Oxford Parkway House locally and the Dragon Station 22 miles (London, and Summer Fields in Oxford. Marylebone from 55 minutes), Senior schools include the Cheltenham 39 miles, London Cotswolds Academy, Burford 78 miles. Academy, Kingham Hill, (All distances and times are Cokethorpe and other well approximate) respected schools such as St Edwards, Magdalen College Situation School and Wychwood School Shipton-Under-Wychwood in Oxford. There is a mainline nestles in the Evenlode Valley, station at Charlbury which in an Area of Outstanding provides regular train services Natural Beauty between to Oxford and London Burford and Chipping Norton Paddington, with some in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. services stopping at the Surrounded by delightful Shipton-Under-Wychwood countryside, amenities in the station. Oxford Parkway offers village include a post office and an alternative service into general store, a doctors’ London Marylebone. surgery and pharmacy, three public houses, a fine parish Description church and Wychwood Church Shipton Standing is a Georgian of England Primary School. The style home built in 1963 by community has an active tennis renowned house designer Alan club and cricket team with golf Gore. The house has been courses close by at Burford, extensively renovated and Chipping Norton and Lyneham. improved by the current Soho Farmhouse is a 25 minute owners, creating a fabulous drive away. family home with elegant More extensive amenities are rooms, large sash windows, available in the nearby market high ceilings and wonderful towns of Burford, Chipping proportions. Norton and Witney. Oxford provides the main shopping and cultural centre for the area, with Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon about 40 minutes’ drive away. There is a good choice of local state and Amongst the many recent The bespoke, hand-painted improvements are the creation cabinetry with tall cupboards of a stunning kitchen/dining has been designed to be both room, the installation of new practical and visually bathrooms and enhancement impressive against the high of the Georgian style interior, ceilings and large volume of such as by the addition of space in the room. deeper skirting boards, There is a generous island window architraves and a with granite worktop, double neoclassical fireplace. sink, a fitted Smeg microwave/ On entering the house, a oven and two Bosch generous hall opens out to an dishwashers. To the side there impressive, wide staircase with is a four oven AGA with natural light from the tall warming plate flanked by nero landing window above. From granite worktops and a the front door, the sightline preparation sink with pot filler continues through the kitchen cold water tap. The tall to the rear garden beyond. Off cupboards house a built in the hall is an elegant cloakroom fridge and freezer and include with basin and coat hanging a pantry style cupboard with space and separate WC. internal wooden drawers. The sitting room has There is versatile lighting on fabulous proportions and is dimmers and plenty of natural dual aspect with large sash light from two large windows windows on two sides as well facing the garden and a French as a French door to the garden. door, which opens onto the The room has an elegant terrace for easy outdoor dining. fireplace with open fire, built in Off the kitchen is a bright, shelving, and double doors that spacious garden room which is lead into the adjacent large currently used as the ideal dining room. This room is also family/TV room. This has a dual aspect with three solid roof and is glazed on windows, a French door three sides with two French opening to the terrace, built in doors opening onto the storage and another door terrace. The addition of a wood giving direct access to kitchen. burning stove has created the The stunning kitchen has perfect inside/outside living been designed by combining area for all seasons. two smaller rooms to create one impressive, open plan space in which to cook, eat and entertain. A rear hallway connects the in cupboards and sink area. kitchen to a utility room with As well as providing excellent very large butlers sink, bespoke storage, it is used as a games/ hand-painted counter height TV room and could make an and full height cabinetry for ideal cinema space or den for maximum storage and housing children if required. a washing machine and tumble The wide staircase leads dryer. A side entrance door upstairs to a bright landing opens onto a covered porch space off which are six connecting to the garage door bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and and driveway. storage cupboards. The large Also off the rear hallway is master room is at the rear of a cosy study, with ample room the house and benefits from for two or more desks and views over the garden and a gas fire. Stairs lead down into ample light from the four a large basement room with windows. windows, central heating, built This room has a wall of built To the front of the property in wardrobes including one a carriage driveway provides with vanity area with hand an excellent entrance and exit wash basin and drawer unit. to the property, parking space There are 5 additional double and access to the very large bedrooms, 1 of the same size as double garage. A side entrance the master room with built in with practical covered wardrobes and 1 with a walk in porchway allows direct access wardrobe. to the rear hallway. The garage There are two large shower has roof lights and ample rooms and a family bathroom, storage space, offering great all beautifully appointed. The flexibility and the possibility for shower rooms have alternative uses. A previous contemporary style walk in planning permission allowed showers with overhead rose for windows in the arched and handheld hose, washbasin garage doorways. The stand and a wall hung WC. property sits in an elevated They have underfloor heating position, set well back and and dual fuel towel radiators. screened by mature trees. Mirrored wall cabinets provide good storage with internal Directions electric points. The master From Oxford proceed along bathroom is in a more the A40 to Burford. Once in traditional style with wooden Burford, proceed down the hill flooring, a bath, pedestal and over the bridge to the mini washbasin, WC and electric roundabout and bear right towel radiator. onto the A361 towards Outside, the house is set in Chipping Norton. Continue generous plot of about an acre through the village of Fulbrook with a lovely walled garden. and on for a further 4 miles to The rear garden is mainly laid Shipton-Under-Wychwood. On to lawn and is arranged over entering the village proceed two levels which gently step past the cricket club on your away from the house. There are left and Shipton Court house a variety of mature trees and on your right. Shipton Standing shrubs which provide an can be found after a short attractive outlook as well as distance on the left. excellent privacy. Doors open Postcode: OX7 6DG from the garden room and kitchen on to a large terrace which looks across out the gardens. Shipton Standing Summertown, Oxford Gross internal area (approx) 461.5 sq m/4967 sq ft 256 Banbury Road, Garage 48.9 sq m/526 sq ft Oxford OX2 7DE Total 510.4 m/5493 sq ft 01865 339700 Including Limited Use Area 10 sq m/108 sq ft savills savills.co.uk [email protected] Energy Efficiency Rating 70 48 = Reduced head height below 1.5m Garden Room 6.06 x 4.74 19'11 x 15'7 Bedroom 3 5.01 x 3.08 Kitchen / Dining Room Bedroom 1 Bedroom 5 16'5 x 10'1 Breakfast Room 5.46 x 5.00 5.01 x 5.01 5.00 x 2.54 7.43 x 4.98 17'11 x 16'5 16'5 x 16'5 16'5 x 8'4 24'5 x 16'4 Study 4.85 x 4.45 15'11 x 14'7 Garage 7.78 x 6.30 25'6 x 20'8 Up Up Dn Up Dn Up B T Up Sitting Room 7.17 x 5.44 Utility 23'6 x 17'10 Bedroom 2 Games Room Hall 5.61 x 5.01 Bedroom 6 5.37 x 5.26 18'5 x 16'5 4.30 x 2.56 17'7 x 17'3 Bedroom 4 14'1 x 8'5 4.98 x 3.03 16'4 x 9'11 IN Lower Ground Floor Ground Floor First Floor Up For identification only. Not to scale. © 19/09/06 IW Important notice Savills, its clients and any joint agents give notice that 1: They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2: Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate.