2 Forestry Cottages Christmas Common | Watlington | | OX49 5HN

2 Forestry Cottages Christmas Common| Oxon| OX49 5HN

A spacious former Forestry Commission cottage in a pleasant village with large gardens and potential to improve.

Offers in Excess of: £425,000

£ Three000,000 double bedrooms  Upstairs bathroom  Sitting room with fireplace  Kitchen/dining room  Side passage with store and wc  Large rear gardens  Off road parking for several vehicles  Single garage  Further workshop and outbuildings  Vacant possession

2 Forestry Cottages within the main house if so desired.

A mid terraced cottage originally built we believe in the Upstairs there is an airing cupboard on the landing with 1950’s by The Forestry Commission, offering spacious immersion back up, and doors to the three spacious accommodation in need of updating but offering bedrooms. Bedroom 1 has a built in wardrobe, as does potential to extend and improve. bedroom 2 which also has a decorative fireplace, electric

fire and overlooks the wood land opposite. Bedroom 3 The front door opens into a small hall with stairs to the overlooks the rear gardens. Also off the landing is a first floor. To one side is a sitting room with a window to three piece bathroom suite with an aspect to the rear. the front, patio doors to the rear garden and a fireplace

with duel fuel stove currently providing the central The house is double glazed an d has solid fuel central heating. T o the other side is a dining room leading into heating and offers an ideal opportunity to acquire a the kitchen which overlooks the rear garden. There are family sized house with room to extend (subject to the basic kitchen units and an electric cooker point. To one necessary consents being obtained). side of the kitchen is a sizeable side passage with doors

to the front and rear gardens, a store room and

downstairs cloakroom. This area could be incorporated

Exterior The house has a level front garden with lawn and a path to the front door and side passage door too. At the rear is a long area of lawn with mature shrubs, and a path through to a further sizeable garden complete with a workshop, several greenho uses and timber sheds. At the bottom of the garden is a prefabricated single garage with off road parking to the front and side. This access is approached over a private drive beside the terrace for the cottages only.

Situation The property is situated in a country lane in the middle of the village of Christmas Common, approximately 2 miles from the larger village of Watlington and just under 10 miles north of Henley on Thames. Watlington offers day to day shopping with a supermarket, butcher, popular cafe with delicatessen, garage, post office, pharmacy, doctors’ surgery and vets.

The town is well placed for access to Oxford and via the M40, J6 at , about 3 miles distant and the "Oxford Tube" offers a convenient bus service to central London for commuters with pick up point close to the M40 junction.

Henley on Thames offers wider shopping at both boutique and national retailers , with a variety of restaurants and public houses serving good food, denominational churches and water based activit y on the River Thames.

There are excellent schooling options within the local area both state and independent, with a pre-school, primary and a specialist Humanities College in the Watlington area . Set within the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Bea uty, the cottage is surrounded by wonderful countryside with opportunities for walking, riding and cycling.

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Directions Leave Henley on the A4130 Fairmile and bear right after approximately 1.3 miles, signposted for The Ass endons and . Follow this road all the way through Stonor and to a T junction and bear right, signposted Christmas Common. The house can be found on your right hand side after approximately 1.7 miles, identified by a Simmons and Sons For Sale board.

Services Mains electricity and water, private drainage and solid fuel central heating to radiators.

Local Authority District Council 01491 823000

Council Tax

Band C, £1,458 per annum 2016 - 2017 S235 Printed by Ravensworth 01670 713330

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Henley 01491 571111 Marlow 01628 484353 Viewing strictly by appointment only with Simmons & Sons London 0207 079 1465 Henley – 01491 571111 www.simmonsandsons.com

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