VILLAGE FARM BARN BOARSTALL, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE VILLAGE FARM BARN BOARSTALL, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

VILLAGE FARM BARN IS A STYLISH AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECT DESIGNED BARN CONVERSION DATING BACK TO THE 18TH CENTURY.

Set deep within beautiful Buckinghamshire countryside with stunning panoramic views of Brill and beyond. Lying in attractive gardens and extending to approximately 3¼ acres, it will appeal as a wonderful private weekend retreat or a comfortable and stylish family home.

Approached through automated electric double gates, a private tree-lined gravel drive provides ample parking and leads to the detached weather boarded triple carport with loft room over. Opposite is a beautiful natural wildlife pond with nesting birds and granary barn, home to the farm’s stunning pure white doves and a newly planted orchard with a variety of fruit trees.

A fully glazed green oak entrance hall offers a light and welcoming approach to the home and provides a tantalising glimpse of the formal landscaped courtyard garden beyond. The entrance hall provides the choice of turning left towards the bedrooms, continuing through into the courtyard garden or turning right into the magnificent kitchen. The centrepiece of the kitchen is the central island with stainless steel worktops and oak breakfast bar with limestone flooring, vaulted ceilings with exposed timbers and floor to ceiling sliding glazed doors, which provide stunning panoramic views across rolling countryside, affording a seamless transition from home to garden. The kitchen is fitted with Miele appliances including induction hob and wine cooler.

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From the kitchen is the magnificent double- views through the sitting room across the height sitting/dining room with a wealth rolling countryside. of exposed timbers, limestone flooring and From the master bedroom suite and also again full height sliding doors affording separately accessed from the courtyard additional views across rolling countryside garden is an additional reception room which and into the private courtyard garden. At could be suitable for a multitude of different the heart of the room is a freestanding Stuv purposes, from home office, gym, snooker or wood burner, which provides a fabulous focal play room to a separate annexe for a nanny point. or au pair. From the sitting/dining room is the Planning consent also exists for an additional family room with oak flooring, vaulted oak-framed barn adjacent to the carports, ceilings, exposed timbers and brickwork, which could be utilised as required (please making a wonderful evening room snug or refer to drawings). The property also features study. A fully glazed door provides direct Cat 5 data cabling throughout, an alarm, access to the courtyard garden. CCTV and a 4600l rainwater harvester. Turning left from the entrance hall, you enter a floor to ceiling glazed corridor, which offers LOCATION uninterrupted views of the courtyard garden Boarstall is on the borders of and provides access firstly to the cloakroom Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. It is and then to the bedrooms, all with en suite famous for its tower, a Grade I listed 14th wetrooms and fitted wardrobes. There is also Century moated gatehouse, built by John de a laundry room with access to the garden. Haudlo and once part of a fortified manor house. There is also a 17th Century duck At the far end of the glazed corridor is the decoy which is still in working order and one master bedroom suite which has a walk-in of only four left in the country, both owned dressing room with en suite off and bedroom by the National Trust. beyond. The dressing room features bespoke Farrow and Ball painted joinery with LED The village itself has a thriving community lighting with freestanding limestone bath, with an annual steam rally and village fête vaulted ceilings and oak flooring throughout. in June. Close by is Magnolia Park Golf and From the dressing room is the master en Country Club and the nearby hilltop village suite with walk-in wet room shower, separate of Brill has two shops, one of which is also a WC and twin limestone basins. The master post office, a doctors surgery, primary school, bedroom has direct access to the courtyard two public houses and of course its famous garden with separate morning terrace and windmill. A wider range of amenities including supermarkets, sporting facilities, DIRECTIONS banks, shops and restaurants can be found in From our office in Summertown proceed the market towns of either Thame or Bicester, north to the Banbury Road roundabout with Bicester Village retail outlet and Oxford taking the third exit onto the A40 northern offering even further shopping and cultural bypass. Continue to the next roundabout and opportunities. take the first exit onto Bayswater Road, go Communication links are excellent: for the over the mini roundabout and at the ‘T’ commuter, rail services from Bicester North, junction turn right then immediately left. Bicester Town and Haddenham and Thame Follow this road through Horton cum Studley Parkway stations go into London Marylebone to the next ‘T’ junction, turn left and from 35 minutes and north to continue for approx. 2.4 miles, past Magnolia Birmingham Snow Hill. By car, junctions 7 & 8 Park Golf & Country Club into Boarstall. The of the M40 lead towards London property is the first driveway on your right Heathrow and the Midlands airports. The A34 after the turning to Boarstall Tower on your (approx. 10 miles away) leads to the M4 and left. Postcode HP18 9UX. the south.

There are primary schools in Oakley and Brill and secondary schooling in Wheatley, along with the well regarded Aylesbury Grammar School and High School. Ashfold Independent Prep School can be found close by in Buckinghamshire and in Oxford, The Dragon School and Magdalen College as well as many others which are all easily accessible (see http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/england/ oxfordshire/oxford).

VILLAGE FARM BARN Boarstall, Buckinghamshire

INTERNAL AREA 393 sq m / 4230 sq ft Granary Barn = 14 sq m / 151 sq ft Outbuilding = 109 sq m / 1173 sq ft Total = 516 sq m / 5554 sq ft

TENURE Freehold

SERVICES Mains electricity and water. Oil fired underfloor heating, septic tank drainage with treatment plant.

LOCAL AUTHORITY Aylesbury Vale District Council. Band H

Under the Property Misdescriptions Act these particulars are intended as a guide and act as information only. They give a fair overall description for the guidance of potential purchasers or tenants but do not constitute an offer or part of a contract. All details and approximate measurements are given in good faith and are believed to be correct at the time of printing, but any potential purchasers or tenants should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact but must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to their correctness. No employee of Winkworth has authority to make or give any representation or warranty to this property. Oxford Office Country House Department 276 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7ED 11 Berkeley Street, Mayfair, London W1J 8DS 01865 511 333 | [email protected] 020 7871 0589 | [email protected]

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