THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE ALDSWORTH, THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE

ALDSWORTH • GLOUCESTERSHIRE

An attractive Grade II Listed four- bedroom village house linked to a self-contained one-bedroom cottage on the edge of a popular village between Northleach and Burford

Drawing room • Sitting room • Kitchen/breakfast room • Office • Utility room • Inner hall • Cloakroom

Four double bedrooms • En-suite shower room • Two bathrooms

Cottage with sitting room, kitchenette, double bedroom and shower room

Garden • Private courtyard

Northleach 4 miles • Burford 6 miles • 10 miles • 15 miles • Oxford 24 miles • Charlbury Station (Paddington 80 minutes) 15 miles (All distances and times are approximate)

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text. Situation • Aldsworth is a charming Cotswold village on the Oxfordshire/ Gloucestershire border which benefits from a village pub, hall and church. • The village is located between the historic market towns of Burford, Northleach and Cirencester, which between them provide a wide range of shopping and leisure facilities, whilst further services can be found at the larger centres of Oxford, Cheltenham and Swindon. • Communications are first class with the nearby A40 connecting to the M40 at Oxford and the M5 at Cheltenham. There are regular intercity rail services to London Paddington from Charlbury. • Recreational facilities include golf at Burford and Cirencester, racing at Cheltenham, as well as water sports at the nearby Cotswold Water Park and the surrounding countryside provides fantastic walking and riding along a network of bridleways and footpaths. The Old School House • The Old School House was built, we believe, in the mid-19th Century as part of the Sherborne Estate, for the manager of their racing stables. At some stage it is also believed to have served as a pub and as the reading rooms for the village. It is now a lovely village house. • Built of Cotswold stone with traditional stone tiles to the front roof slopes, it has a particularly attractive dressed stone front facade with rusticated quoins and stone mullion windows. The Old School House is attached to a neighbour and is Grade II Listed as being of special architectural and historic interest. • The accommodation is arranged over three floors and extends to just over 2,800 sq ft in total. It has a lovely elegant feel about it with high ceilinged rooms, a number of which have south facing aspects. Care has been taken to preserve as many of the period features in the property as possible and these include fireplaces, shutters, Elm floorboards, a flagstone floor and a particularly fine staircase with a delicate handrail. • The Vendor has also recently replaced some of the windows. The cottage also has permission to be used as a holiday cottage. • There is a separate one bedroom cottage to the rear of the house which is linked via a wide glazed way which serves as a home office. The cottage has its own access and has in the past been used as a studio and there is a charming courtyard between the cottage and the house. Gardens and grounds • The majority of the garden lies to the front of the house and is across a small lane. It is principally laid to lawn with flower and shrub borders and some mature trees, including a lovely old apple tree. The garden has a southerly aspect and is enclosed by walls Up on three sides, with a fence to the fourth. There is a timber garden Approximate Gross Internal Area Bedroom Utility 264.0 sq m / 2841 sq ft shed. Sitting Room 5.01 x 3.20 Void Into Room 16'5 x 10'6 4.25 x 1.78 4.25 x 4.23 Sitting Room • There is a paved courtyard to the rear of the house which 13'11 x 5'10 13'11 x 13'11 is completely private and has a side access. Kitchenette Services Cottage Ground Floor Cottage First Floor Mains water and electricity are connected. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. Office 4.90 x 2.07 Fixtures and fittings 16'1 x 6'9 Only those mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others, such as fitted curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments etc., are specifically excluded but may be made available by separate negotiation. Eaves Kitchen / Breakfast Room 4.94 x 3.20 Local authority 16'2 x 10'6 Council. Telephone 01285 623 000 Up

Directions (GL54 3QP) Dn From Cirencester, take the B4425 towards Bibury and Burford. Up Continue through the villages of Barnsley and Bibury and on reaching Aldsworth, turn left into the village. The Old School Bedroom Bedroom House is then the first property on your left. Bedroom 4.24 x 4.14 Drawing Room Sitting Room Bedroom 4.09 x 3.19 Dn 4.63 x 3.30 13'11 x 13'7 4.63 x 4.57 5.01 x 3.12 13'5 x 10'6 4.63 x 4.06 15'2 x 10'10 Viewings 15'2 x 15'0 15'2 x 13'4 16'5 x 10'3 Up Viewing is strictly by prior appointment.

Main Entrance Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor

Important Notice 1. Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP in the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing 01285 659 771 (“information”) as being factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither Knight Frank LLP nor any joint agent has any authority to make any representations about the property, and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s). 2. Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared Dyer Street, Cirencester, at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and distances given are approximate only. 3. Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt with and that all Gloucestershire, GL7 2PT information is correct. 4. VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice. Particulars dated: December 2015. Photographs dated: December 2015. Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability [email protected] partnership registered in with registered number OC305934. Our registered office is 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may look at a list of members’ names.

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