A charming four bedroom Victorian family house in sought after Jericho just north of Oxford city centre. The Property has been modernised, is full of period character and has a secluded rear garden.
An attractive and charming restored Victorian townhouse retaining a number of period features including sash windows, panel doors, fireplaces, high ceilings.
This stylish house has a spacious sitting room with a box bay window and wood-burning stove, adjacent study/family room and a wonderful open-plan lower ground floor kitchen, dining and garden room with good natural light and French doors to steps up to the rear garden. The shaker-style fitted kitchen has integrated appliances, a walk-in larder, an original free-standing larder cupboard and oak flooring throughout. The main bedroom to the front of the house on the first floor has two original sash windows ample space for wardrobes and an en-suite bathroom which also has a door to the landing.
All four bedrooms are double bedrooms and there is a shower room, bathroom or cloakroom on every floor. Other features include stripped and polished floorboards to three of the four bedrooms, a gas “woodburning” stove to the lower ground floor and an attractive landscaped west-facing rear garden.
The garden is accessed from both the rear hallway and the kitchen/dining/family room and is attractively planted with a terrace, lawn and large timber shed. There is also an outside tap and power points.
The property is not listed but is within the Jericho Conservation Area.
According to Ofcom, Superfast and Ultrafast broadband are available and you are likely to have good mobile voice and data coverage outdoors but may experience problems indoors with certain networks.
The property is in a central position in Jericho within half a mile of 300 acre Port Meadow, listed in the Domesday Book and a site of special scientific interest, with its riverside walks to Wolvercote and to the Perch public house.
There is also access to the Oxford Canal at Walton Well Road, a very pleasant 10 minute walk to Oxford Railway Station. Allotments are located adjacent to Port Meadow on Fiddler’s Island.
Jericho itself is very well-served by a range of cafe’s, restaurants, pubs, Sainsbury’s and Co-op food stores, a Post Office, Branca Deli, chemists, doctors surgery and a range of independent shops in Walton Street and Little Clarendon Street.
Cultural attractions include the Phoenix Cinema, live music in several pubs, St Barnabas Church and, in the near future, the new Schwarzman Centre for Humanities which will have a full state-of-the-art, and open to the public, exhibition and performance spaces, including a 500 seat concert hall.
Oxford Railway Station offers a regular 50 minute service to London Paddington and Gloucester Green has a coach service to London Victoria. The Oxford Ring Road connects to the A34 at Hinksey Hill and at the Peartree roundabout connecting to the M4 and Milton Park and Newbury to the South and the M40 and Bicester to the North.
Oxford’s historic city centre is within a mile of the property with its world renowned University buildings, museums, parks and multiple shopping and entertainment options.
Joint Agents: Knight Frank
