9 CARMEL TERRACE MONGEWELL PARK F WALLINGFORD F SOUTH 9 CARMEL TERRACE MONGEWELL PARK F WALLINGFORD F Wallingford - 1 mile F Oxford - 15 miles F Reading - 12 miles F (mainline station) - 2 ½ miles F Henley on Thames - 11 miles F M4 at Theale (J12) - 14 miles F M40 at (J6) - 12 miles (Distances approximate)

Quietly located in Mongewell Park by the in an area of “Outstanding Natural Beauty” just to the South of the historic old market town of Wallingford on Thames. A mews house dating from the early 1960s, providing 4 bedroom accommodation and featuring a central circular staircase, together with a rear garden of over 50ft and shared ownership of an adjoining grass meadow.

✦ Wide Recessed Front Porch

✦ Entrance Hall ✦ Cloakroom ✦ Study ✦ 24 ft Sitting/Dining Room with Wood Burner ✦ Modern Fitted Kitchen

✦ 4 Bedrooms ✦ Family Bathroom SITUATION The small community of Mongewell Park lies approximately one mile to the South East of the historic old market town of Wallingford granted a Royal ✦ Gravelled Forecourt Charter in 1155, and largely comprises the extensive range of staff accommodation and buildings of the former Carmel College campus which ✦ 53 ft Rear Garden occupy a beautiful setting on the banks of the River Thames in grounds originally extending to approximately 70 acres including a lake from which ✦ Shared Ownership of adjoining Grassed Meadow there is a small tributary leading directly into the Thames itself. The site includes a fine Victorian mansion reputedly used by Agatha Christie as the basis for her Monkswell Manor House in her book ‘The Mousetrap’, as well as having a lake in the grounds with a Grade II listed Boat House. Wallingford in addition to its rich historical heritage and numerous period buildings, offers excellent shopping facilities including a Waitrose supermarket as well as a range of amenities such as banks, family owned shops, a variety of restaurants, pubs and hotels and a theatre/ cinema in a beautiful Italianate former Corn Exchange building. Road communications are excellent and for rail commuters there is a main line station at Cholsey providing fast services up to Reading and London (Paddington). The ancient Ridgeway Path which crosses the River from Streatley to Goring and then follows the river bank along to Mongewell where it veers off up into the Chilterns, provides extended scenic walks along a particularly attractive stretch of the Thames and the longest between locks. Wallingford can also be reached by a riverside footpath. PROPERTY DESCRIPTION 9 Carmel Terrace is in a row of 6 mews houses arranged in staggered pairs all having washed brick elevations. Built in the early 1960s originally as staff accommodation, the houses were architect designed incorporating a contemporary theme internally notably with a central circular wall around a turning staircase rising to first floor. The ground floor provides flexible accommodation including an open-plan Sitting/Dining Room spanning the rear of the house and leading onto the garden, modern fitted ‘shaker’ style Kitchen, Study and Cloakroom. To the First floor are 4 sizeable bedrooms and a family bathroom with skylight. OUTSIDE At the rear of the house there is a sizeable area of Garden with a depth of approximately 53 ft, tapering at the end, enclosed by fencing with a rear pedestrian gate giving access onto a grassed meadow fringed by mature trees giving shelter and natural protection. On one side the meadow adjoins a tributary from the nearby lake which leads directly into the River Thames. The ownership of the meadow is shared with the adjoining properties. Across the rear of the house, approached from the French door in the Sitting Room is a wide raised decked terrace with surrounding balustrading and central steps down to the lawned garden. Timber garden Shed 8’ x 6’. The property is approached off the Road over a large gravelled forecourt area which extends across the frontage of the whole terrace bounded along the roadside by a tall evergreen hedge which provides privacy and protection. There is ample parking in front of each property. GENERAL INFORMATION Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage are connected to the property. Electric underfloor heating on the Ground Floor arranged in 3 zones, and with electric wall convector heaters to First Floor. Council Tax: D Energy Performance Rating: G / 19 Postcode: OX10 8BX Local Authority: South Oxfordshire District Council Telephone: 01491 823000

VIEWING Strictly by appointment through Warmingham & Co

DIRECTIONS From our offices in the centre of Goring turn right and proceed up to the top of the High Street where at the railway bridge junction bear left on to the Wallingford Road. Continue out of the village and in a further 4 ½ miles on reaching the junction with the A4074 Reading to Wallingford Road bear left and then almost immediately left again into Constitution Hill. At the bottom of the hill turn left and then immediately right behind the hedging into the forecourt area extending across the frontage of the terrace of 6 houses.

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