House For Sale £2,850,000
Tadmarton House in an imposing Grade II Listed family house situated in an elevated position with outstanding south facing views over the surrounding Oxfordshire countryside. The property was included by the famed architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner cbe in his book Buildings of England. The property was built around 1830 by Captain Lampet who originally named it The Highlands.
Constructed of part brick and part Horton stone with ashlar quoins, under a Welsh slate roof with cornice and modillions. The property underwent a total renovation project in 1998 by the previous owners saving the house from dereliction.
The reception hall is incredible spacious offering great ceiling heights leading down the length of the house to a door out to the lavender garden. All of the main entertaining rooms are on the south side of the property benefitting from wonderful views over the parkland and lake. The large French windows flood the rooms with light and the family room has French doors opening out on to a patio dining area with spectacular views over open countryside with the village of Bloxham and its church spire in the distance. The kitchen is on the north side of the house with a back door in from the garaging and parking, you enter through a bootroom with cloakroom and the stairs to the extensive cellars are opposite along with a spacious pantry.
Upstairs offers eight bedrooms, some with ensuite bathrooms and dressing rooms, maintaining the elegant proportions, high ceilings, sash windows and the higher you go, the better the southerly views become. On the second floor, there is kitchen and sitting room that has its own access from the back staircase, ideal for staff or nanny flat.
The property is approached by double electronically operated wrought iron gate opening to a sweeping mature oak tree lined driveway leading you up to the front door. To the eastern side of the property is a parterre lavender garden and a pergola with climbing roses and clematis creating a walkway leading to the formal gardens and extensive lawns with a magnificent lime tree at its centre. There are a couple of outbuildings and a summer house which would make for great outdoor entertaining.
To the north is a courtyard providing a car parking area and access to the triple garage and machinery shed with a gardeners' WC in one corner.
The majority of the land comprises of parkland that stretches round the south side of the property with a number of mature trees and leading down to the lake.
Tadmarton House is situated to the North West of Bloxham, in the rolling countryside between the market towns of Banbury and Chipping Norton. Chipping Norton provides shopping for your everyday needs and Banbury offers an extensive range of shopping and recreational facilities. Bicester Village, 19 miles away, provides a further range of shops and facilities including Europe's largest factory outlet. Daylesford Organic Shop & Spa is 15 miles away and the popular Soho Farmhouse only 9 miles.
Situated for excellent communications with access to London 80 miles, M40 (J11) 10 miles, Banbury Station 6 miles, with a journey time to London Marylebone in approximately 56 minutes, Birmingham Airport 45 miles, Heathrow 72 miles and Oxford Airport 12 miles.
Constructed of part brick and part Horton stone with ashlar quoins, under a Welsh slate roof with cornice and modillions. The property underwent a total renovation project in 1998 by the previous owners saving the house from dereliction.
The reception hall is incredible spacious offering great ceiling heights leading down the length of the house to a door out to the lavender garden. All of the main entertaining rooms are on the south side of the property benefitting from wonderful views over the parkland and lake. The large French windows flood the rooms with light and the family room has French doors opening out on to a patio dining area with spectacular views over open countryside with the village of Bloxham and its church spire in the distance. The kitchen is on the north side of the house with a back door in from the garaging and parking, you enter through a bootroom with cloakroom and the stairs to the extensive cellars are opposite along with a spacious pantry.
Upstairs offers eight bedrooms, some with ensuite bathrooms and dressing rooms, maintaining the elegant proportions, high ceilings, sash windows and the higher you go, the better the southerly views become. On the second floor, there is kitchen and sitting room that has its own access from the back staircase, ideal for staff or nanny flat.
The property is approached by double electronically operated wrought iron gate opening to a sweeping mature oak tree lined driveway leading you up to the front door. To the eastern side of the property is a parterre lavender garden and a pergola with climbing roses and clematis creating a walkway leading to the formal gardens and extensive lawns with a magnificent lime tree at its centre. There are a couple of outbuildings and a summer house which would make for great outdoor entertaining.
To the north is a courtyard providing a car parking area and access to the triple garage and machinery shed with a gardeners' WC in one corner.
The majority of the land comprises of parkland that stretches round the south side of the property with a number of mature trees and leading down to the lake.
Tadmarton House is situated to the North West of Bloxham, in the rolling countryside between the market towns of Banbury and Chipping Norton. Chipping Norton provides shopping for your everyday needs and Banbury offers an extensive range of shopping and recreational facilities. Bicester Village, 19 miles away, provides a further range of shops and facilities including Europe's largest factory outlet. Daylesford Organic Shop & Spa is 15 miles away and the popular Soho Farmhouse only 9 miles.
Situated for excellent communications with access to London 80 miles, M40 (J11) 10 miles, Banbury Station 6 miles, with a journey time to London Marylebone in approximately 56 minutes, Birmingham Airport 45 miles, Heathrow 72 miles and Oxford Airport 12 miles.
