House For Sale £900,000
Everything about this perfectly proportioned Cotswold cottage embraces character, cosiness and comfort – what more could you ask for in the depths of the British winter? Bramleys’ eye-catching appeal extends into the warmer months too when the mellow Cotswold stone frontage is clad with a pretty climbing vine. The cottage owes its name to the magnificent Bramley apple tree in the back garden – reputed to be the oldest apple tree in the village!
It’s a dreamy, picture-perfect three-bedroom country retreat in Shipton-under-Wychwood, one of three villages bordering the ancient Forest of Wychwood, four miles from Burford and nestled in the sought-after Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Trains to London, countryside pursuits, excellent state and private schooling, superb foodie pubs and the luxe retail emporiums of Daylesford Organic and Burford Garden Company are on your doorstep!
Thought to date back to the mid to late 18th Century, Bramleys proudly embraces its heritage features – the two inglenook fireplaces in the sitting room and snug are particular showstoppers. There’s also a big L-shaped kitchen and separate dining room on the ground floor plus a cellar accessed from the dining room and three spacious bedrooms and a family bathroom on the two upper floors.
As well as the delightful cottage itself, there’s a separate super-luxe studio just across the courtyard. The current owners have recently added a trio of remote-control Velux windows and blinds too. It would be ideal self-contained accommodation for an elderly relative, au pair or as an AirBnB-style holiday let, if you wish. There’s also a separate garden room with store. Flooded with light via bifold doors overlooking the garden, it makes a lovely home office, workshop, gym or artist’s studio.
Looking for a peaceful escape from the city hustle-bustle? Bramleys is the perfect turn-key property -close enough to London, Birmingham, Bristol etc for weekend breaks or longer holidays - and equally ideal for professionals looking for an idyllic ‘work from home’ base or downsizers aiming to ‘escape to the country’.
We know you’re excited to hear more about this Cotswolds gem, so here are all the details . .
Character, Cosiness And Comfort In The Cotswolds
Warmed by gas central heating, you’ll fall in love at first sight with the quintessential cottage charm of Bramleys. That’s what happened to the current owners who made an on-the-spot offer during their initial viewing - and it was duly accepted!
Beautifully presented, the front door is approached via a gravelled pathway, flanked by lawn, while to the rear of the property, behind the double garage, there’s driveway parking for up to four cars.
You’ll be entranced as soon as you step through the front door into the sitting room (16x15ft), which exudes charismatic cottagey charm wherever you look. The focus is the magnificent inglenook fireplace with its curvaceous original oak lintel and cute alcove seats – definitely the place to get toasty-warm beside the newly installed woodburner. The period features such as overhead and upright beams, sash windows and oak flooring stand out against the neutral décor including a timber staircase to the first floor.
Next to this is the snug – appropriately named as this is the perfect place to snuggle up in front of the TV, warmed by another woodburner in the heritage fireplace. With an oatmeal carpet underfoot, more overhead beams, a built-in cupboard and original alcove with lintel, ideal for book-shelves, this epitomises the country cottage dream.
To the rear of the sitting room is the dining room, which combines exposed stone walls and cornflower blue wood panelling to great effect. Before the kitchen extension was built it was the rear of the house and the two windows remain and are a charming feature.
An interior hallway with cloak and cupboard storage culminates in the superb L-shaped kitchen with flagstone flooring, underfloor heating and exposed stonework. Fitted with a great range of farmhouse-style cream units with wooden worktops, and complete with pantry storage, there’s a cream gas six-burner range cooker with terracotta wall tiles above, Belfast sink with brass taps, integral fridge/freezer and brand new dishwasher.
A nifty extra is the breakfast bar with bar stools – the perfect spot for quick breakfasts or coffee. Glazed double French doors - the rear entrance to the cottage - form part of an attractive teal blue mini conservatory with vaulted glass roof, which ensure the kitchen is light-filled all-year-round. Pop a kitchen table and chairs here to enjoy the morning sunshine and views of the garden.
Sweet Dreams
The charismatic charms of Bramleys continue in the bedrooms on the first and second floors. The master bedroom, with recently laid hardwood flooring, and an additional double bedroom are located on the first floor to the front of the house with views of the pretty village of Shipton-under-Wychwood. These lovely rooms exude country comfort at its finest, and there’s copious storage in both with built-in wardrobes and cupboards.
The family bathroom with bath tub and corner shower is a tranquil haven with exposed stonework and heritage green décor. The WC is separate, but adjacent.
Up on the second floor, under the eaves, is a third large bedroom (22x12ft). You need to bear in mind the varying head heights in here, but it would be an idyllic den-like bedroom for youngsters or, with a desk under the dormer window, it’s a super home office and the Gigaclear broadband connection is excellent. There’s plenty of built-in storage too.
Into The Garden
In the warmer months, the gnarled old Bramley apple tree offers some shade in this typical country cottage garden. Easily manageable, peaceful and private, there’s lawn surrounded by shrubs and bushes and a paved path to the studio annexe, garden room and garage – which has a brand new door and electric car charger.
At the end of the lawn a cute arched love-seat is a nice spot to while away a few hours with a book on a summer’s day.
Next to the cottage, you can relax, dine al fresco and entertain friends on the raised paved terrace, screened by a wisteria-clad stone wall and overlooking a pond with a wall-mounted lion water fountain.
Round And About
Shipton-under-Wychwood is a lovely place to live – everything you need is here, and it’s a friendly, lively community where there’s always lots going on if you want to get involved!
Pick up all the everyday essentials at St Michael’s Stores and post office, or take a stroll to the Co-Op in the adjoining village of Milton-under-Wychwood. There’s also the Wychwood gp surgery.
The village school, Wychwood CE, is Ofsted-rated good. The nearest secondary schools, both five miles away, are Burford School – rated good – and the outstanding-rated Cotswold Academy at Bourton-on-the-Water. Excellent private schools abound with the Windrush Valley School in nearby Ascott-under-Wychwood named the 21st top prep school in England by The Sunday Times. Others include Kingham Hill School (five miles), Cokethorpe School and The King’s School, both near Witney.
The village bustles with activities, much of them based in Shipton and Milton village halls and including amateur dramatics, choirs, a community craft café, wi, Scouts and Guides and fitness classes of every kind. There are also dynamic sports clubs devoted to football, tennis (with three courts) and bowls. Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club is renowned, having once won the National Village Knockout competition – the top accolade in village cricket!
You are really spoiled for fantastic pubs in this part of the country. There are three in Shipton – The Shaven Crown, The Wychwood Inn and The Lamb. The Hare in Milton and The Swan at Ascott are both highly rated, as is The Feathered Nest at nearby Nether Westcote.
A little further afield and you are at the gorgeous home of Daylesford Organic, the upmarket shopping, drinking and dining empire on a Cotswold Farm near Kingham. More great local produce, gifts and the Big View Café are found at TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm Shop, or visit the Burford Garden Company, an emporium of everything you need to make your home and garden simply gorgeous!
Another bonus of living in Shipton is the train station which is on the Cotswold Line between Paddington and Hereford with three trains a day in each direction. Nearby stations at Kingham and Charlbury have more frequent services.
The surrounding Cotswold countryside is picture-perfect, and reason enough to put down roots here. It’s on the Oxfordshire Way footpath with an array of lovely walks, bike rides or hacking routes to choose from.
Finer Details:
Square footage: 2591 sq ft / 240.8 sq mtr
central heating: Gas
tenure: Freehold
distances:Burford – 4 miles
Oxford – 23.7 miles
London – 77.9 miles
Heathrow Airport – 65.5 miles
EPC: Exempt
local authority: West Oxfordshire District Council –
It’s a dreamy, picture-perfect three-bedroom country retreat in Shipton-under-Wychwood, one of three villages bordering the ancient Forest of Wychwood, four miles from Burford and nestled in the sought-after Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Trains to London, countryside pursuits, excellent state and private schooling, superb foodie pubs and the luxe retail emporiums of Daylesford Organic and Burford Garden Company are on your doorstep!
Thought to date back to the mid to late 18th Century, Bramleys proudly embraces its heritage features – the two inglenook fireplaces in the sitting room and snug are particular showstoppers. There’s also a big L-shaped kitchen and separate dining room on the ground floor plus a cellar accessed from the dining room and three spacious bedrooms and a family bathroom on the two upper floors.
As well as the delightful cottage itself, there’s a separate super-luxe studio just across the courtyard. The current owners have recently added a trio of remote-control Velux windows and blinds too. It would be ideal self-contained accommodation for an elderly relative, au pair or as an AirBnB-style holiday let, if you wish. There’s also a separate garden room with store. Flooded with light via bifold doors overlooking the garden, it makes a lovely home office, workshop, gym or artist’s studio.
Looking for a peaceful escape from the city hustle-bustle? Bramleys is the perfect turn-key property -close enough to London, Birmingham, Bristol etc for weekend breaks or longer holidays - and equally ideal for professionals looking for an idyllic ‘work from home’ base or downsizers aiming to ‘escape to the country’.
We know you’re excited to hear more about this Cotswolds gem, so here are all the details . .
Character, Cosiness And Comfort In The Cotswolds
Warmed by gas central heating, you’ll fall in love at first sight with the quintessential cottage charm of Bramleys. That’s what happened to the current owners who made an on-the-spot offer during their initial viewing - and it was duly accepted!
Beautifully presented, the front door is approached via a gravelled pathway, flanked by lawn, while to the rear of the property, behind the double garage, there’s driveway parking for up to four cars.
You’ll be entranced as soon as you step through the front door into the sitting room (16x15ft), which exudes charismatic cottagey charm wherever you look. The focus is the magnificent inglenook fireplace with its curvaceous original oak lintel and cute alcove seats – definitely the place to get toasty-warm beside the newly installed woodburner. The period features such as overhead and upright beams, sash windows and oak flooring stand out against the neutral décor including a timber staircase to the first floor.
Next to this is the snug – appropriately named as this is the perfect place to snuggle up in front of the TV, warmed by another woodburner in the heritage fireplace. With an oatmeal carpet underfoot, more overhead beams, a built-in cupboard and original alcove with lintel, ideal for book-shelves, this epitomises the country cottage dream.
To the rear of the sitting room is the dining room, which combines exposed stone walls and cornflower blue wood panelling to great effect. Before the kitchen extension was built it was the rear of the house and the two windows remain and are a charming feature.
An interior hallway with cloak and cupboard storage culminates in the superb L-shaped kitchen with flagstone flooring, underfloor heating and exposed stonework. Fitted with a great range of farmhouse-style cream units with wooden worktops, and complete with pantry storage, there’s a cream gas six-burner range cooker with terracotta wall tiles above, Belfast sink with brass taps, integral fridge/freezer and brand new dishwasher.
A nifty extra is the breakfast bar with bar stools – the perfect spot for quick breakfasts or coffee. Glazed double French doors - the rear entrance to the cottage - form part of an attractive teal blue mini conservatory with vaulted glass roof, which ensure the kitchen is light-filled all-year-round. Pop a kitchen table and chairs here to enjoy the morning sunshine and views of the garden.
Sweet Dreams
The charismatic charms of Bramleys continue in the bedrooms on the first and second floors. The master bedroom, with recently laid hardwood flooring, and an additional double bedroom are located on the first floor to the front of the house with views of the pretty village of Shipton-under-Wychwood. These lovely rooms exude country comfort at its finest, and there’s copious storage in both with built-in wardrobes and cupboards.
The family bathroom with bath tub and corner shower is a tranquil haven with exposed stonework and heritage green décor. The WC is separate, but adjacent.
Up on the second floor, under the eaves, is a third large bedroom (22x12ft). You need to bear in mind the varying head heights in here, but it would be an idyllic den-like bedroom for youngsters or, with a desk under the dormer window, it’s a super home office and the Gigaclear broadband connection is excellent. There’s plenty of built-in storage too.
Into The Garden
In the warmer months, the gnarled old Bramley apple tree offers some shade in this typical country cottage garden. Easily manageable, peaceful and private, there’s lawn surrounded by shrubs and bushes and a paved path to the studio annexe, garden room and garage – which has a brand new door and electric car charger.
At the end of the lawn a cute arched love-seat is a nice spot to while away a few hours with a book on a summer’s day.
Next to the cottage, you can relax, dine al fresco and entertain friends on the raised paved terrace, screened by a wisteria-clad stone wall and overlooking a pond with a wall-mounted lion water fountain.
Round And About
Shipton-under-Wychwood is a lovely place to live – everything you need is here, and it’s a friendly, lively community where there’s always lots going on if you want to get involved!
Pick up all the everyday essentials at St Michael’s Stores and post office, or take a stroll to the Co-Op in the adjoining village of Milton-under-Wychwood. There’s also the Wychwood gp surgery.
The village school, Wychwood CE, is Ofsted-rated good. The nearest secondary schools, both five miles away, are Burford School – rated good – and the outstanding-rated Cotswold Academy at Bourton-on-the-Water. Excellent private schools abound with the Windrush Valley School in nearby Ascott-under-Wychwood named the 21st top prep school in England by The Sunday Times. Others include Kingham Hill School (five miles), Cokethorpe School and The King’s School, both near Witney.
The village bustles with activities, much of them based in Shipton and Milton village halls and including amateur dramatics, choirs, a community craft café, wi, Scouts and Guides and fitness classes of every kind. There are also dynamic sports clubs devoted to football, tennis (with three courts) and bowls. Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club is renowned, having once won the National Village Knockout competition – the top accolade in village cricket!
You are really spoiled for fantastic pubs in this part of the country. There are three in Shipton – The Shaven Crown, The Wychwood Inn and The Lamb. The Hare in Milton and The Swan at Ascott are both highly rated, as is The Feathered Nest at nearby Nether Westcote.
A little further afield and you are at the gorgeous home of Daylesford Organic, the upmarket shopping, drinking and dining empire on a Cotswold Farm near Kingham. More great local produce, gifts and the Big View Café are found at TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm Shop, or visit the Burford Garden Company, an emporium of everything you need to make your home and garden simply gorgeous!
Another bonus of living in Shipton is the train station which is on the Cotswold Line between Paddington and Hereford with three trains a day in each direction. Nearby stations at Kingham and Charlbury have more frequent services.
The surrounding Cotswold countryside is picture-perfect, and reason enough to put down roots here. It’s on the Oxfordshire Way footpath with an array of lovely walks, bike rides or hacking routes to choose from.
Finer Details:
Square footage: 2591 sq ft / 240.8 sq mtr
central heating: Gas
tenure: Freehold
distances:Burford – 4 miles
Oxford – 23.7 miles
London – 77.9 miles
Heathrow Airport – 65.5 miles
EPC: Exempt
local authority: West Oxfordshire District Council –
