Handsome, extensively modernised, detached house in enviable grounds and setting.

Description

Accessed via a private drive, Fiveways Cottage is an impressive 1920’s property, set in wonderful mature, landscaped gardens. The property has been transformed by the current owners to provide well-presented, versatile accommodation with character features. There is further potential to enhance the first floor, with the option of creating four bedrooms. The property, which extends to about 0.56 acres features impressive 360 degree views over gently undulating, open countryside.

The central hallway leads to a spacious dual aspect sitting room, which provides a light and versatile space with a wood burning stove, wood panelling and wooden floor. This leads to a further garden room / snug area with doors into the garden. The generous and stylish kitchen has been significantly extended and re-fitted to provide a real heart of the home. With a vaulted ceiling, integrated sound system, bespoke handmade tiles, solid oak work surfaces and doors onto the terrace, it is an impressive room with plenty of room to dine and entertain. The dual aspect study features an charming open fire with original tiles. There is also a utility room with Belfast sink, boot room and downstairs WC with a bespoke hand basin.

The first floor provides a principal bedroom with wood panelling and a recently re-fitted en suite shower room, featuring Fired Earth tiles and eaves storage. The second bedroom is very generous and with a dual aspect and features a wall of in-built wardrobes, en suite shower room and eaves storage. This offers the potential to be converted into two bedrooms. There is a further double bedroom and a stylish, recently refitted family bathroom featuring Fired Earth tiles. All of the first floor rooms feature enviable views over surrounding countryside.

The private driveway leads to a parking area for several cars. The property also benefits from a recently constructed brick workshop and store and a single timber garage. Extending to about 0.56 acres, the mature landscaped garden provides a real oasis. A large terrace is the ideal spot to entertain, while the rest of the garden, with ponds, woodland and lawn features a vast number of specimen trees and shrubs, including magnolia, Japanese maples, silver birch and clematis.

Location

Fiveways Cottages sits in gently undulating open countryside less than 0.5 miles from the village of Shutford, 4.5 miles to the west of Banbury, on the edge of the Cotswolds in North Oxfordshire. With origins dating to Saxon times and earlier, the church of St Martins has Norman origins. The village is full of historical buildings built from the local Hornton stone, with pub (temporarily closed May 2023), church with Norman origins, recently refurbished village hall and children’s play area. Nearby Sibford Ferris (3.5 miles) has a village shop and post office. The market town of Banbury (4.5 miles) offers shopping facilities, cinema, restaurants, bars and a sports complex. Further facilities can be found in Shipston-on-Stour (10.5 miles), Chipping Norton (11 miles), Stratford-upon-Avon, (16 miles) and Oxford (34 miles.)

Excellent communication links with equidistant access to the M40 at Banbury (J11) for the South and Gaydon (J12) for Birmingham and the North. Mainline train services from Banbury to London Marylebone (from 59 minutes). Birmingham International Airport is 39 miles away.

There are excellent local schooling facilities including primary school in Shenington and secondary North Oxfordshire Academy at Banbury. The village is in the Priority Area for the Warwickshire Grammar Schools at Stratford-upon-Avon - King Edward VI (KES) for boys, Stratford Grammar School (for girls). Preparatory schools in the area include St Johns’ Priory (Banbury), Carrdus (Overthorpe), Sibford, Kitebrook (Moreton-in-Marsh), The Croft (Stratford-upon-Avon) and Warwick Prep. Private schooling includes Kings High (girls), Warwick (boys), Tudor Hall (girls), Bloxham (co-ed) and Sibford (co-ed).

Sporting and leisure activities in the area include golf at Tadmarton Heath, Rye Hill and Feldon Valley (Brailes); theatres at Chipping Norton, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford; Soho Farmhouse private members club at Great Tew; indoor sports complex, cycling club and cinema / leisure complex in Banbury; motor racing at Silverstone and British Motor museum at Gaydon and horse racing at Warwick, Stratford upon Avon and Cheltenham. There is a good footpath and bridleway network through the surrounding rolling countryside and Upton House and Gardens National Trust property is 4.5 miles away.

Please note all times and distances are approximate.

Square Footage: 1,824 sq ft


Acreage: 0.56 Acres

Directions

From Banbury, take the B4035 Broughton Road towards Shipston-on-Stour. After about 0.8 miles take the first right signposted North Newington. Follow the road through the village of North Newington and then continue for approximately 1.5 miles. At the staggered crossroads turn left towards Lower Tadmarton and the property will be on the right after approximately 200m.

Additional Info

Council Tax Band: F