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3 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Delightful cottage in the heart of a sought after village
- Versatile accommodation
- Outbuilding with potential
- Charming walled garden
- Off road parking
- No onward chain
- EPC Rating = D
Description
Yew Cottage is a delightful period cottage, lying in the Conservation Area, of stone construction under a re-constituted stone tiled and slate roof. Over the years the property has been painstakingly improved and modernised whilst retaining all of its charm.
Period features include an open fireplace with wood burning stove, window seats, exposed timbers, elm cupboards, four panel internal doors, woodblock flooring.
The sitting room offers a tremendous amount of space with dual aspect and as a result natural light pervades throughout, which is slightly unusual for a property of this age.
A separate dining room leads to a well laid out kitchen. A door opens to the garden room which is ideal for informal eating and a vantage point to enjoy the lovely garden.
Upstairs are three double bedrooms, a bathroom and a separate shower room, the main bedroom with dual aspect has plenty of built in storage cupboards.
To the front is a gravelled courtyard offering off road parking for a number of cars.
There are delightful, mature level walled gardens to the front (south elevation) laid to lawn with herbaceous borders and beds. Stone terracing makes the perfect spot to unwind and entertain.
Across the garden is the bothy, a lovely stone outbuilding converted to a home office/library with semi-vaulted ceiling, wood burner, built in book shelves, pine floor boards and en suite shower room. Ideal for working from home or guest annexe. Attached to one end is a lean to log store. To the western end of the garden is a useful workshop with light and power connected. Greenhouse. Bin area, outside oil boiler and oil tank.
Key features of this property include a lovely central village position yet retaining privacy, lovely gardens, useful bothy and a comfortable period home with a modern feel.
Location
Shenington is a charming, highly sought-after Oxfordshire village situated in attractive, rolling countryside between Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon, on the edge of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village comprises ancient ironstone houses, a 12th Century Church, a 'Good' rated (at time of print, May 2024) Church of England primary school, a well-regarded pub, village hall and doctors’ surgery. Shenington has a thriving community and a popular annual music and literature festival. There is a village shop and Post Office in Tysoe and farm shops nearby. More extensive shopping and leisure facilities are to be found in the market towns of Banbury (5.9 miles), Stratford-upon-Avon (15.8 miles), Warwick (18.4 miles) and Leamington Spa (18.8 miles).
Communication links include access to the M40 at Banbury (7.1 miles) for the South and Gaydon (9.2 miles) for Birmingham and the North. Mainline train services from Banbury to London Marylebone (from 56 minutes).
There are a number of senior schools in the locality, and a primary school in the village. Shenington is in the Priority Area for the Warwickshire Grammar Schools at Stratford-upon-Avon (at time of print, May 2024) - King Edward VI (KES) for boys, Stratford Grammar School (for girls). Local private schools include Kings High (girls), Warwick (boys), Tudor Hall Girls, Bloxham (co-ed) and Sibford. 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.
Sporting facilities in the area include golf at Tadmarton Heath, Rye Hill and Feldon Valley; Spiceball Leisure Centre, Bannatyne health club/spa and Soho Farmhouse private members club. There are theatres and cinemas at Chipping Norton, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford. Shenington is within reach of Silverstone and horse racing at Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham. There is a comprehensive footpath and bridleway network through the surrounding countryside. Upton House and Gardens National Trust property is only 3 miles away.
All distances and times are approximate.
Square Footage: 1,619 sq ft
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