5 bed detached house for sale

School Lane, Castle Eaton, Wiltshire SN6

Set within the popular village of Castle Eaton is this deceptively spacious and well maintained five bedroom detached chalet bungalow. Built by the current owners in the early 1980s, the property sits on a generous plot with ample off street parking on a gravelled drive leading to a double integral garage, while to the rear is a well tended garden with a southerly facing aspect and rural backdrop.

The flexible accommodation is arranged over two floors and currently comprises entrance hall, cloakroom, two ground floor bedrooms, bathroom, sitting room, dining room, kitchen breakfast room, utility room and study to the ground floor. While the first floor provides three further bedrooms with the principal bedroom benefitting from an en-suite shower room, the other two bedrooms are serviced by a separate shower room and WC.

With the River Thames and its Thames Path National Trail running through the village and lying to the east of the bustling Cotswold town of Cirencester, Castle Eaton is in a rural, yet accessible, location surrounded by lovely countryside providing fantastic walks and an abundance of wildlife.

Within the village there is a well-supported public house, The Red Lion, with gardens that roll down to the river, and the 13th century St Mary's Parish Church. The Village is characterised by its older buildings, dating from about 1650 to 1850 most of which are in the Street, the original main thoroughfare. Built of local stone, these buildings give Castle Eaton the look and feel of a traditional Cotswold village. Castle Eaton was awarded the Best Kept Small Village 2022.

Cirencester is to the west with excellent recreational and sporting facilities including polo and the nearby Cotswold Water Park with its assorted water sports. There are supermarkets, a leisure centre, hospital and many other essential services. There is an excellent choice of local schooling and private schools, with Westonbirt School in Tetbury, Prior Park Prep school in the pretty market town of Cricklade (two miles) and Pinewood School at Bourton (six miles).

Castle Eaton is eight miles from Swindon mainline station with its high-speed rail service to London Paddington, Bristol and Bath. Oxford and Cheltenham are both a thirty-minute car journey away and the M4 and M5 are also easily accessible.