WALLISCOTE FARM WHITCHURCH-ON-THAMES • OXFORDSHIRE Walliscote Farm • Whitchurch-on-Thames • Oxfordshire Pangbourne centre & railway station 10 minutes’ walk (fast trains to London Paddington 47 minutes) ● Reading (6 miles) & easy access to Oxford by rail & road ● M4 (junc 12) 6 miles ● Heathrow 45 minutes by car (all distances/times are approximate) Walliscote Farmhouse - 1,742 sq ft/162 m² The Fowl House annexe - 1,414 sq ft/131 m² The Hen House - 398 sq ft / 37 m² Thames River mooring - Number 7 (8.7 metres) Walliscote Farmhouse/The Fowl House/ The Hen House - Gardens & Paddock 0.77 acres/0.31 hectares (all measurements are approximate) Your attention is drawn to the important notice on page 7 Walliscote Farmhouse The Fowl House annexe sitting room The Hen House Walliscote Farmhouse The Fowl House annexe NOT TO SCALE The Fowl House annexe A unique opportunity to purchase a wonderful investment and a splendid period 6 The Aldridge family have been careful to retain all the best features of the original 18th bedroom family home, valuably unlisted, with paddocks/pastureland, river frontage century building and it has recently undergone refurbishment throughout and and moorings. Set within the heart of this famous period Thameside village and redecoration. surrounded by countryside noted for its outstanding scenic beauty. The Fowl House annexe underwent a splendid conversion by the present owners, This is the first time Walliscote Farm has been on the market for 80 years as it has been retaining many of the original features of this delightful 19th century building. The in the ownership of the Aldridge family since 1937. The farm itself is situated on the sitting room is large with a vaulted ceiling and showing all the original oak beams with banks of the River Thames overlooking Pangbourne village and Whitchurch Lock. lots of windows giving light and a stripped pine floor. French doors give access Within easy walking distance to the village centre, shops and train station giving good directly onto the courtyard, similar to the Farmhouse this is in splendid order commuter access to London Paddington. throughout there is a ground floor suite of bathroom and double bedroom and a graceful staircase leads from the sitting room to the large first floor landing and The 18th century detached Farmhouse, which has some later additions, together with another suite of double bedroom and bathroom. the adjacent annexe, an 18th century very beautiful detached converted residential barn; The Fowl House, could be combined and used as a single dwelling, subject to Special features: local authority planning permission, or used as at the moment, as two family occupa- tion if so desired. Walliscote Farmhouse ● River Thames Mooring ­ Number 7 (8.7 metres) Both The Farmhouse and The Fowl House annexe are in excellent order throughout ● Walliscote Farmhouse constructed of flint and brick and possibly dates to the early and have pretty, sunny gardens enjoying the southerly sun to the rear of the 18th century with some later 19th century and 20th century extensions Farmhouse with a raised terrace for summer dining. An ancient high red brick wall ● The property is valuably unlisted runs the boundary to Whitchurch High Street and the gardens as a whole enjoy a high ● Due to the close proximity of The Farmhouse and The Fowl House annexe, approx. degree of privacy. There are well-maintained lawns, pretty flower beds and a large 6 metres, they might easily be linked to form one property if so desired, subject to brick-laid courtyard between The Fowl House, The Farmhouse and a small paddock. local authority planning permission Walliscote Farmhouse Walliscote Farmhouse sitting room dining room ● The Farmhouse has high ceilings and exposed beams and examples of the old ● The outbuilding adjacent to Walliscote Farmhouse, The Old Hen House dairy building knapped flint, with a pretty quarry tiled hall, original stripped and polished pine has had a commercial use and of recent times used as a micro-brewery, known as floor to the sitting room and bedroom 4 The Hen House Brewery, South Oxfordshire for the last 5 years ● The kitchen is spacious, with plenty of room for a large table for all the family to ● The acquisition of Walliscote Farmhouse, Fowl House annexe, Hen House outbuilding congregate around and includes a gas fired 2 oven AGA and sliding patio doors pastureland/paddocks and river moorings offer a wonderful opportunity to not only overlooking and giving access to the rear gardens acquire part of the historic and very beautiful village of Whitchurch-on-Thames ● There is an open fireplace within the sitting room and bedroom 4 ● There is a large wide staircase in stripped original pine giving access to the first floor Summary of accommodation: with a large landing, some exposed beams to the ceilings and 3 pretty original, probably Victorian fireplaces to the bedrooms The Farmhouse together with its adjacent converted barn The Fowl House, gardens ● There is a large study area to the first floor, and all the bedrooms are doubles with and paddock extending to 0.77 acres/0.31 hectares. high ceilings ● Walliscote Farm is set within a conservation area The Farmhouse Exterior original porch, entrance hall with quarry tiled floor, staircase to first floor, sitting The Fowl House annexe room with open fireplace, shower room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, shower ● The Fowl House barn has its origins in the 18th century and was used in the mid-19th room & bedroom 4 (on the ground floor) inner hall, first floor; large landing, 3 double century as a stable, cart shed, harness room, loose box and hayloft bedrooms, bathroom with shower, study, gas fired central heating, large parking area ● The sitting room is large with a vaulted ceiling and showing all the original oak beams with lots of windows giving light and a stripped pine floor ● French doors give access directly onto the courtyard The Fowl House annexe ● There is a ground floor suite of double bedroom and bathroom Barn, pretty reception hall with open fireplace, kitchen/breakfast room, a spectac- ● A graceful staircase leads from the sitting room to the large first floor landing and ular sitting room with vaulted ceiling, cloakroom, large utility room, two double bed- another suite of double bedroom and bathroom rooms, both with ensuite bathrooms, large first floor landing with possible study area, ● The property is in splendid order throughout gas fired boiler supplying central heating and domestic hot water, small wine cellar. The detached Hen House outbuilding Patio area between the corner of The Fowl House annexe and Walliscote Farmhouse Large courtyard, parking for a number of cars, further parking area to the front of connected to each mooring and separately metered, cost to be borne by the the Farmhouse and parking for further cars to the front of the Old Dairy/Hen House owners of each plot. outbuilding which is being presently used as a micro-brewery. There will be a responsibility for all moorings for payment for their individual jetties to The detached Hen House - divided into three rooms - The Environment Agency. The cost to each mooring is calculated by the meterage Room one - Store - 17’ x 9’, Room two - 2nd store 12’ x 9’, Room three - 15’ x 9’ of each mooring jetty width, as a guide the vendors state that the current fees Paddock - The Fowl House annexe and The Farmhouse also own the pretty would be in the region of £100-£200. A proposed purchaser is advised to contact paddock which has a number of fruit trees and will be the responsibility of the owner the Environmental Agency or look on their website as to a guide to their charges. of the Farmhouse, to post and rail if required. Most of the mature trees to the river bank, which include Chestnut and Lime, have Walliscote Farm was part of the manor of Whitchurch, Henry V bestowed the manor Tree Preservation Orders; this will not preclude maintenance to the trees, but will to a Knight by the name Walysh and this name no doubt over the years was require permission from the South Oxfordshire district council tree preservation softened into Wallis. It was one of his descendants, Taverner Wallis, who is believed officer. Each of the freehold owners of the track will be responsible for that part for to have built Walliscote House in the middle of the 17th century and who claimed his maintenance. descent from an ancestor in Henry V’s reign and quite likely created Walliscote Farm as the home farm to Walliscote House. Note 4. – The moorings freehold will be placed in a limited company, and to be shared, owned and managed by all mooring owners. Therefore giving Wallis was a Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. He also at complete control and protection to all mooring owners. Further details from some point was a Cambridge man and sometime later the farm as it is today was Dudley Singleton & Daughter. split away from what was Walliscote House, and the land and many cottages were sub-divided and sold into separate ownership until 1937 when Walliscote Farm was Note 5: There are no public rights of way or footpaths over the entirety of Walliscote purchased by The Aldridge family. Farm. Walliscote Farm was a Dairy Farm until the early 1970s. Between the 1930s and 1950s Local Facilities: Walliscote Farm is within easy walking distance of Pangbourne milk and cream were delivered to the local community. For 25 years rare breed village centre with its fine selection of award winning independent shops, a super- White Park cattle spent some of their time here.