Mead Farm is an impressive Grade II listed family house full of character and located close to Oxford. The property has attractive period features including fireplaces, shuttered windows and flagstone floors.
Accommodation includes three very spacious reception rooms, including the sitting room (originally the dairy), a study and a small office while the drawing room is an elegant space for entertaining with a French window out onto the terrace.
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The kitchen has been recently refitted and has an Aga and a large laundry room; upstairs are the master bedroom suite, three further bedrooms and a dressing room on the first floor. Stairs lead up to two large attic bedrooms on the second floor.
Outside the gardens are an attractive setting for the house, and come to around half-an-acre. To the rear the garden is partly walled and laid mainly to lawn, a courtyard and a kitchen garden. A large thatched barn houses substantial garages and a store room.
Yarnton is a very pretty village just four miles north of Oxford with good local amenities including a primary school, two pubs and a post office.
The guide price is £1.4m. For further information please contact Savills on 01865 339 700 or visit www.savills.co.uk.
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