Waywardens, West Street, Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX7 6YQ

A handsome former village farmhouse situated in one of the most highly regarded Cotswold villages

Guide £2,000,000

Kingham Station (mainline station to London Paddington in 85 minutes) 1 mile ● Chipping Norton 4 miles ● Stow-on-the-Wold 5 miles ● Oxford 22 miles (all distances and times are approximate).

Entrance hall, drawing room, dining room, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room open to family room, galleried study, utility room, cloakroom, secondary kitchen, three first floor bedrooms, family bathroom with separate WC, shower room, store room, two attic rooms and Jack and Jill shower room.

Workshop with potential for conversion, attractive walled gardens with off street parking.

About 0.25 of an acre.

Situation and Communications Waywardens situated in the highly sought after village of Kingham, set in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Kingham was voted England’s favourite village by Country Life Magazine in 2004 and is a thriving community with a village shop/post office, primary school, church and two public houses. The renowned Daylesford organic farm shop is within easy walk.

More extensive shopping facilities can be found in Chipping Norton and Stow-on-the-Wold. Cheltenham, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford are within easy reach and provide more extensive shopping, leisure and cultural amenities as well as excellent independent and state schools.

Communication links are excellent with good access to the M5 (Junctions 10, 11 and 11a) leading to the West Country and the M40 (Junctions, 8, 9, 10 & 11) providing easy access to London, Heathrow Airport and the Midlands. Train links for the area are good with regular services to London Paddington from Moreton-in-Marsh and Kingham.

Sporting and recreational facilities are well catered for in the area with golf courses at Lyneham, Chipping Norton and Naunton Downs. Hunting with the Heythrop and North Cotswold Hunts. National Hunt Racing is at Cheltenham, Stratford, Warwick and Worcester. The surrounding countryside is particularly beautiful with traditional Cotswold villages, rural walks, interesting churches and important gardens at Hidcote and Kiftsgate.

Waywardens Waywardens is situated on the south east side of West Street set behind attractive green verges. The house, which was formerly a farmhouse, is Grade II Listed and is thought to date from the late eighteenth century. The property has been considerably remodelled at various times to suit changing tastes and is now principally Victorian in appearance. The property has an interesting history having been home over the centuries to tenants at the centre of village life including farmers, yeomen, carpenters and the village Waywarden who was responsible for surveying the local highway.

The principal façade has a prominent canted bay window, attractive sash windows, two gabled dormer windows beneath Cotswold stone and welsh slate roofs. There is a date stone situated in the dining room marked 1768. The property retains the usual period features including Cotswold flagstone floors, exposed stopped chamfered ceiling timbers, mullion windows and exposed floorboards.

Internally the property provides an excellent arrangement of rooms over three floors including a welcoming entrance hall providing access to a magnificent kitchen/breakfast room which is open to the family room forming the heart of the house. The kitchen is fitted with a range of handmade and hand painted wall and floor cabinets, with black granite work surfaces, Butler sink and handmade tile splashbacks. There is a black enamelled Everhot stove for cooking. The kitchen/breakfast room has a full height ceiling with exposed roof truss timbers. A glazed link connects the kitchen/breakfast room to the family room creating an interesting combination of traditional and contemporary. Beyond the kitchen/breakfast room is the utility and cloakroom with door to garden and turned staircase to a useful galleried study.

The sitting room has an impressive fireplace. The drawing room is situated at the front of the property and has a projecting bay window, inglenook fireplace and fitted log burning stove. There is a well-proportioned dining room ideal for formal entertaining.

The principal bedroom and bathroom accommodation is situated across the first floor with two staircases linking to the second floor. On the second floor are two interconnecting attic rooms with exposed roof truss timbers and a Jack and Jill shower room. The arrangement of rooms is versatile and lends itself to a number of uses.

Attached to the property on the south elevation is a workshop with potential for conversion to create extra living accommodation subject to consent. The workshop has a modern concrete floor, electric light and power and a storage loft.

Outside The property sits within a walled garden and is discretely situated behind a tall hedge onto West Street. There is gravelled off street parking to the west of the house. The front elevation of the property has a mature wisteria, central pathway and level lawns with borders containing mature trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. A pair of five bar gates divides the parking area from the rear garden which is principally south facing. There is a level terrace adjacent to the property and a lawn. To the far boundary is a mature hornbeam hedge under-planted with herbaceous plants.

General Information

Local Authority West Oxfordshire District Council tel: 01993 702941. Council tax band G.

Services Mains water, electric and drainage are connected to the property. Oil fired central heating. Underfloor heating to the kitchen/breakfast room, family room, utility room and cloakroom. Telephone line subject to BT transfer regulations.

Tenure Freehold.

Directions OX7 6YQ From Stow-on-the-Wold take the A436 towards Chipping Norton. After about 2½ miles take the right turn signposted to Kingham. At the t-junction turn right and on entering the village turn right opposite the village green into West Street. Proceed along West Street for approximately 200 yards where the property will be found on the left hand side set behind a tall hedge.

Viewing Strictly by accompanied appointment with Savills.

Date of Information Gross Internal Area (approx.) = 351.4 sq m / 3872 sq ft (excluding void) Particulars prepared: April 2018. Workshop = 15.3 sq m / 165 sq ft Photographs taken: April 2018. Total = 366.7 sq m / 3947 sq ft Savills Ref: 180430HR