6 bed detached house for sale

The Ridgeway, Boars Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1

The house sits in a private position off The Ridgeway and has been extended by the current owners and now offers exceptional family space with circa 4480 square feet. The ground floor provides a large kitchen/breakfast room together with five reception rooms, including a wonderful games room, a cosy playroom, a more formal sitting room and a conservatory. There is also a cloakroom, a shower room and a large utility room.

The first floor has a lovely, large landing with a rooflight and cupboards. The main bedroom has an en suite bath/shower room, a steam room and a balcony overlooking the garden, which is also shared with bedroom 4. There are five further bedrooms, two with en suite shower rooms and a family bathroom.

The gardens have been well maintained and improved and are principally laid to lawn with well-stocked herbaceous borders. The house is approached off the land through electric gates on to a drive with an attractive avenue of lime trees with a tree house to one side. At the side of the house, there is plenty of parking and a double garage with an adjacent storeroom/office and a separate workshop to the rear.

Boars Hill is a sought-after residential area famous for its wooded rural setting, just five miles from the centre of Oxford, which provides a wide range of shopping, cultural, recreational and educational facilities. It is well served by communications with access to the A34 and Oxford ring road, connecting to the M4 and M40 motorways, with the regional centres of Newbury and Swindon also within easy reach.

Communications by rail are also excellent, with fast trains from Oxford or Didcot to London Paddington taking about fifty-two and forty minutes, respectively. In addition, Oxford Parkway station has services to London Marylebone in sixty-three minutes.

The house is very well situated for many schools in the area, including Abingdon, Radley, St. Helen and St. Katharine's, Cothill and Chandlings and further afield, there is Cokethorpe, St. Hugh's and Kingham Hill. Oxford has an exceptional range of schools, including The Dragon, St Edward's, Magdalen College, Summer Fields, Headington, Wychwood, d'Overbroecks, and Oxford High School.