Map4 bedroom cottage for sale
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- Grade II listed 17th century cottage
- Four bedrooms, family bathroom
- Kitchen, cellar, cloakroom
- Sitting room, dining room
- Front and rear gardens
- Town centre location, walking distance from amenities
- Train station (East/West line) due to open in 2025
- No onwards chain
The cottage is in the conservation area and retains many original features including a jetty overhanging the street, herringbone brickwork, oak floorboards, exposed beams, flagstone flooring, fireplaces, a wooden staircase with a twist, and a cobbled courtyard. Built-in furniture has been tastefully restored.
There is an enclosed low maintenance rear garden with a summerhouse and a cottage garden at the front. The property is in catchment for the Royal Latin Grammar School.
Rooms
Kitchen, Sitting Room and Dining Room
There are three entrances to the cottage, one into the kitchen and two into the dual aspect sitting room. This room has an open inglenook fireplace with bressummer beam and a bread oven, and there are ceiling beams and stone flooring. The dining room is a Georgian, late 18th-century extension with a sash bay window, wooden flooring, and a cast iron fireplace. The inner hall has stairs to the cellar and flagstone flooring which continues into the kitchen, which has a range of handmade wooden units with Elm worktops and a butler’s sink.
Outside
The cottage is approached via a gated path with a wrought iron arch covered in climbers. The raised garden, enclosed by fencing and a mature hedge, has a courtyard for outside dining. The enclosed rear garden is mainly laid to artificial lawn and has a patio. The summerhouse has electricity, heating, and Wi-Fi, and could be used as a home office. Planning permission was granted in 2020 (now expired) for a single storey extension off the kitchen to add a breakfast room.
Situation and Schooling
The market town of Winslow has a range of shopping and leisure facilities, GP and dental surgeries, a library and a range of public houses and restaurants. The town also has a Church of England combined school and the Sir Thomas Fremantle secondary school. Winslow is also in the catchment area for the Royal Latin School in Buckingham.
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