4 bedroom property for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Viewings available 7 days a week by appointment
- A charming late Victorian semi detached cottage
- Beautiful cottage gardens all in approximately ? of an acre
- 4 Bedrooms
- 4 Reception Rooms
- Family Room
- 1 Bathroom
1 THE HERMITAGE – EASTFIELD LANE
GORING HEATH – OXFORDSHIRE
*Goring on Thames – 3 miles *Reading – 7 miles *Pangbourne on Thames – 4 miles
*Oxford – 20 miles *Henley on Thames – 8.5 miles
*M4 at Theale (J12) – 8 miles *M40 at Lewknor (J6) – 17 miles
*Newbury – 17 miles *Wallingford – 7 miles
Enjoying a rural outlook in this idyllic location within this most desirable rural hilltop village, a charming late Victorian semi detached cottage, sympathetically extended and refurbished, offering well appointed accommodation with beautiful cottage gardens all in approximately ¼ of an acre.
• A Late Victorian Semi Detached Cottage Offering 4 Bedroom Accommodation
• Beautifully South Facing Cottage Gardens sitting in an ¼ Acre Plot.
• Entrance Hall
• Kitchen with Adjoining Dining Room with Sliding Doors To Gardens
• Family Room with Mezzanine Level
• Living Room with Log Burner
• Utility Room
• Cloakroom
• Rear Porch
• 4 Double Bedrooms
• Family Bathroom with Bath and Walk-In Shower
• In All Approximately 1872 Sq Ft
• Gated Driveway
• South Facing Gardens with Greenhouse, Lawn and Children’s Play Area
• Solar panels benefitting from a Feed-in Tariff (FIT) of approx. £1,200 a year which is index linked and due to run for another 16 years
LOCATION
Goring Heath, lying a few miles east of Goring on Thames, is a scattered, rural Parish extending from the South Western edge of Woodcote, skirting round Whitchurch Hill and then South towards Mapledurham with the A4074 Reading to Wallingford Road forming the perimeter along its eastern boundary.
In addition to local well revered primary and secondary schools, locally the area is also extremely well served by an excellent range of both state and private schooling, of particular note; The Oratory Preparatory, The Oratory, Cranford House, Moulsford Preparatory, Pangbourne College, Abingdon Boys and The School of St Helen & Katharine.
The village of Woodcote is within easy walking distance with access to local shops and health centre. Goring on Thames is but a short drive, offering established shopping centres and a range of facilities including, modern health centres as well as restaurants, hotels and olde worlde inns. In addition, there are mainline train services from Goring & Streatley station to both Oxford and London, with London Paddington commutable within the hour.
Crossrail services have commenced from Reading which together with the electrifying of the line will significantly improve travelling times to Paddington and central London destinations.
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
1 The Hermitage is the left hand cottage of a single pair of cottages built in 1894, occupying idyllic woodland. Entrance is through a clay-tiled porch with timber detail, offering coat storage and leading into the hall. The kitchen has hand-made units and polished concrete work-tops as well an electric AGA and beautiful porceline flooring with underfloor heating which extends through to the dining area. The dining area is an extension completed by the current owners and it showcases stunning slim frame sliding doors and roof windows which encapsulate the cottage gardens. There are steps down through to an family room which has a mezzanine level.
The living room is dual aspect and features wood flooring and a log burner, plus french door to the garden. The utility room has a door to the cloakroom.
Upstairs there are 4 double bedrooms, all with stripped back floorboards and the family bathroom features a roll-top bath and walk-in shower.
OUTSIDE
At the front of the cottage is a low hedge and five bar gate leading into the driveway which is shingled and offers parking for 2 cars, There is a side gate which leads to the beautiful south facing rear gardens offering a bountiful array of shrubs and borders, as well as specimen trees, such as apple and pear. There is also a Greenhouse built on to the side of the house. The lawn leads down to the end of the gardens where the current owners have created a children’s play area. The gardens are simply stunning and form an important part of the whole property.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Services: Mains gas, water, drainage, and electricity are connected. Central heating and hot water from gas fired boiler Installed in 2018. The property also has solar panels which has a feed in tariff
Postcode: RG8 7SU
Energy Efficiency Rating: 64 | D
Local Authority: South Oxfordshire District Council - Telephone:[use Contact Agent Button]
DIRECTIONS
From our offices in the centre of Goring turn right and continue up to the top of the High Street. At the railway bridge junction turn right then next left into Reading Road and follow up Whitehill and out of the village. In 2 miles on reaching Crays Pond turn left at the crossroads for Woodcote. In a further ½ mile turn right at a small crossroads into Shirvells Hill. At the top where the road bends sharply round to the left, 1 The Hermitage will be seen directly in front of you, with entrance just off Eastfield Lane
VIEWING
Strictly by appointment through Warmingham & Co.
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