Description
A Grade II listed stone and brick under tile five bedroom detached property with outbuildings, a double garage with driveway parking for up to eight cars and mature gardens. This part 17th-century property has 2,472 sq. ft. of accommodation arranged over two floors. On the ground floor there are four reception rooms, including a dining area which has a walk-through from the sitting room, a kitchen/breakfast room, and a downstairs shower/cloakroom. The attached double garage can be accessed from the study. The first floor has five bedrooms, each accessed from the landing, the principal bedroom has a dressing room and an en suite bathroom and there is a family bathroom.
Lower Farm dates back in part to 1682 and was formerly a row of three cottages. It retains many original features including two inglenook fireplaces, fitted with modern log burners and one with a bread oven, exposed structural beams, and a wooden floor in the sitting room.
Ground Floor The ground floor has a flexible living arrangement including separate sitting and family rooms and a study next to the garage, which could be used as a ground floor bedroom owing to the adjacent three piece shower room. The kitchen/breakfast room, with a flagstone floor, has French doors to the patio at the side and matching base and wall units incorporating Neff appliances and granite worksurfaces.
Outside The property has a plot of 0.41 acres, in which there is an office, a greenhouse and two sheds. At the front the gated driveway has block paved parking for up to eight cars in front of the double garage. The mature gardens include a lawn and raised beds at the front and a path leads around the side to a mainly lawned rear garden.
Situation and Schooling Local amenities - a village shop, a post office, a school and a public house - are located in Grendon Underwood, which is approximately 1 mile away. Bicester (8.1 miles) and Aylesbury (12.5 miles), offer a wider variety of shops and social facilities. The property is in catchment for Aylesbury grammar schools and Waddesdon Secondary School; local private schools include Swanbourne House School (12.5 miles) and Stowe School (11.6 miles).
