Bampton, Oxfordshire, OX18 2JJ Guide price £895,000

Situation

Box House is situated in the centre of the attractive Cotswold village of Bampton known for its large Georgian houses, elegant church and impressive Victorian Town Hall . In the seventeenth century Bampton was an important leather trading centre and became famous for its jackets, gloves and breeches. Bampton is also renowned as the historic home of Morris Dancing and the Bampton Morris dancers flourish to this day.
The village offers a selection of shops including a mini-supermarket and a family butcher, village pubs, a restaurant, hairdressers, bank and Post Office. It also has a primary school, doctor’s surgery with pharmacy and a public library. There are also further schooling and shopping facilities in Witney and Faringdon (both about 5 miles) and Burford (about 7 miles). The village is also well situated for road communications being about 5 miles from both the A40 and the A420. There are regular buses to Witney, Carterton and Oxford.

Description

Box House is a very appealing period house which has been sympathetically extended over the years including the more recent addition of an attached two bedroom cottage. The house enjoys a lovely well established secluded garden tucked away at the rear and benefits from parking at the side of the house.
Offering spacious accommodation over two floors the property has many period features including elegant rooms with high ceilings, cornicing, sash windows, flagstone flooring, fireplaces and of particular note, the front door with decorative Georgian fan light above. In the original front part of the house, the attractive entrance hall opens to the principal reception rooms. The two rooms at the front of the house are elegant with high ceilings; the study being a particularly attractive room with arched recessed bookshelves arranged either side of the fireplace. Enjoying a lovely outlook over the garden at the rear of the house is the spacious drawing room with large windows and French doors providing an abundance of natural light. Beyond the drawing room, the dining room continues through to the kitchen/breakfast room with fitted cupboards and a door to the utility and boot rooms from where there is access to the car port and garden. On the first floor are four charming double bedrooms, a shower room, bathroom and dressing room. The two bedrooms at the rear of the house enjoy a lovely outlook over the garden.
Attached to the main house (not linked but could be) is the two bedroom cottage with independent access from the car port.
Outside
The secluded garden complements the property providing a most attractive setting. Divided into separate areas it is laid to lawn with a variety of well established shrubs, borders and trees including a large Walnut tree. Within the garden are a summer house, garden stores and divided from the rest of the garden, is a kitchen garden with green house. Located at the side of the house, double electric gates open to a car port providing off street parking.

Accommodation

Main house: Reception hall, sitting room, study, drawing room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom, utility room, boot room, 4 bedrooms, dressing room, bathroom room, shower room.
Cottage: sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, 2 bedrooms, bathroom.
Gardens, car port providing off street parking.
In all about 0.4 acres

Directions

From Oxford proceed along the A420 towards Swindon. After approximately 13 miles take the right hand turning to Bampton. Continue into the centre of the village and turn left at the round about by the market place into Bridge Street. Box House will be found immediately on your right on the corner of Rosemary Lane.