High Street, Croughton, Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 5LT | Property for sale | Savills
2.20 Ac(0.89 Ha)
Guide price £2,000,000(€2,280,422)

High StreetCroughton, Brackley, Northamptonshire, NN13 5LT

  • Sold

Key features

  • Sold in February 2023
  • Integral cottage with four bedrooms
  • South facing mature gardens
  • Deceptively spacious with character
  • Driveway and off road parking
  • In all 2.2 acres

Substantial Georgian village property with cottage and stunning south facing garden views.

About this property

  • The house, in need of modernisation, offers a huge amount of scope and potential to create independent living for more than one family subject to the usual planning consents. The Georgian façade and two wings to the rear, provide versatile accommodation. The main house offers seven bedrooms and four bathrooms over three floors whilst the east wing can be used as a separate cottage. It consists of four bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, sitting room and snug and wc. This could also be incorporated into the main house as further living space.

    One enters the property from the front door into the breath-taking reception hall, with sweeping mahogany bannister and ornate coved cornice ceiling. This gives access through to the main reception rooms, rear hallway, and onto the kitchen/breakfast room. The drawing room is the largest of the two front rooms with an extraordinary amount of depth and ceiling height. Full height sash windows with working shutters furnish the room with ornate fireplace. The sitting/dining room has similar proportions with sash shuttered windows and fireplace. The west wing contains the kitchen/breakfast room with two sash windows allowing plenty of natural light into the room. There is a generous sized island unit with double sink and plenty of storage cupboards, electric aga, five ring electric hob, siemens double oven, coffee machine and built-in dishwasher. Through into the utility room there is space for a washing machine and tumble dryer with access to the cellar and rear courtyard.

    On the first floor are bedrooms one and two both with en suite bathrooms, with sash windows overlooking the beautiful south facing gardens. From the rear corridor is access to both the first-floor east wing (the cottage) and west wing. The east wing comprises the cottage and the west wing comprises two bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor and three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor.

    Outside to the front of the property is a small courtyard with access to the village path and what could be a lovely walled kitchen garden. The driveway sweeps in from the west side of the house through stone pillars and then onto a gravel drive where there is parking for several cars. There is a double garage and outbuildings for storage. The mature gardens then sweep away from the house providing the most wonderful vista from the front of the property. There is an area of flat lawn interspersed with mature trees and shrubs, a gardener's haven! A wild wooded area runs at the bottom of the garden creating a wonderful secret garden!

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I love the well established gardens and sense of secrecy in these breathtaking gardens which lead up to this fabulous house. Although it is located in the village it feels like the middle of the countryside!

Sophie GannonProperty agent

Local information

  • Situated in the pretty village of Croughton which benefits from a Co-op, school and village hall. The nearby towns, including Banbury, Brackley, Bicester, Oxford and Milton Keynes, provide extensive recreational, cultural and leisure facilities. Banbury and Bicester mainline stations provide regular services to London Marylebone in under an hour and Birmingham to the north. M40 (junction 10) lies 5.5 miles to the south providing access to London, M25 (national motorway network), airports at Birmingham 46 miles, Coventry 38 miles and Heathrow 60 miles.
  • There are excellent educational facilities in the area including a primary school in Croughton and senior schools Chenderit (Middleton Cheney) and Magdalen College School (Brackley). Local preparatory schools include Winchester House (Brackley) and Beachborough (Westbury), St. John's Priory (Banbury), Carrdus (Overthorpe). Senior Independent schools include Bloxham School, Tudor Hall Girls (Bloxham) and Stowe, as well as the Oxford Schools.
  • Leisure and sporting activities in the area include Soho Farmhouse at Great Tew; horse racing at Towcester, Warwick and Cheltenham; golf at Chesterton, Tadmarton Heath and Cherwell Edge; tennis at Adderbury, Kings Sutton, Deddington and Brackley; motor racing at Silverstone; theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford; Bicester Village outlet centre; hunting with the Bicester and Heythrop Hunts and Polo at Kirtlington. There are many good local shoots. The surrounding area hosts many footpaths and bridleways for walking and riding. Bridleways lead directly from the property and provide extensive hacking opportunities.
  • All distances and times are approximate.

Additional information

  • The neighbouring property has a right of way over the front part of the drive.
  • EPC Rating: F
  • Tenure: Freehold
  • Council Tax Band: G