5 Bedrooms Detached house for sale in Torpids, Upton OX11 | £ 1,650,000

Property Description

Torpids – high street

upton – oxfordshire

Didcot 2 ½ miles (London Paddington 40 minutes) - M4 (Junction 13) 6 miles - Newbury 13 miles - Oxford 13 miles – Reading 17 miles - (Distances and times approximate)

Enjoying a relaxing ambience and outlook, the setting is simply delightful, being idyllically situated in this delightful quintessentially English village, yet conveniently placed for Oxford, Reading, Newbury and the M4 with the garden town of Didcot with its modern shopping centre and mainline station providing direct access to London Paddington in well under the hour only a short drive away.

Set in delightfully mature gardens and grounds of approximately 0.35 of an acre with extensive amenity and outbuildings, an impressive family residence of approximately 4,094 sq ft in size, built at the turn of the century to an exacting standard, with striking elevations of particular architectural note, and further enhanced in recent years, encompassing modern and contemporary high-quality fixtures and fittings throughout, with an inspired internal design including, 5 bedrooms (3 suites) and 6 reception rooms, incorporating part vaulted ceilings, a galleried & vaulted reception hall and landing, and an impressive fireplace with log burner to the drawing room, providing for an exquisite family home.

• An Impressive Family Residence Of Striking Architectural Design

• Quintessentially English Village Location Within Close Driving Distance Of Extensive Amenities, Schooling, Mainline Railway Station To London Paddington & Scenic Riverside

• Covered Entrance Porch

• Galleried & Vaulted Reception Hall

• Cloakroom

• Vaulted Kitchen / Breakfast Room With Bespoke Fitted Kitchen & aga & Bi-Fold Doors

• Utility Room

• Boot Room

• Garden Room With ‘Bi-Fold’ Doors

• Family Room

• Drawing Room With Brick Fireplace & Log Burner

• Dining Room

• Galleried & Vaulted 1st Floor Landing

• Master Bedroom Suite With Dressing Room & En-Suite Bathroom

• 2nd Bedroom Suite With En-Suite Shower Room

• 2 Further Bedrooms

• Family Bathroom

• 2nd Floor Galleried Landing

• Bedroom Suite With Dressing Area & En-Suite Bathroom

• Integral Double Garage

• In All Approximately 4,094 Sq Ft

• Professionally Landscaped Gardens & Grounds Of Approximately 0.35 Of An Acre

• Double Car Port

• Garden Gym

• Garden Summerhouse

• Garden Store

• Wood Store

Situation

The pretty village of Upton lies in an Area of “Outstanding Natural Beauty” on the edge of the Berkshire Downlands, some 2 ½ miles south of Didcot and within easy reach of the surrounding towns of Wantage, Wallingford, Abingdon, Oxford and Newbury via the fast A34 dual carriageway. The garden town of Didcot offers an excellent range of amenities, including a thriving shopping centre with supermarkets and banks and a mainline station providing fast commuter services to Oxford, Reading, Swindon and up to London (Paddington) in well under the hour.

The village itself has many period properties, some dating back to the Middle Ages and is historically linked with farming and agriculture. There is a chapel and a parish church called St Mary the Virgin whose origins date back to at least 1086, being mentioned in the Domesday Book. The village also boast a fantastic award-winning children’s play area, located within the peaceful village recreation ground.

In the area there is a good range of state and private schools, including two excellent primary schools in the villages of Chilton and Blewbury, all located a short distance from Upton. Didcot has the only two single sex secondary schools in the county, St Birinus and Didcot Girls’s School. Private schools of particular note nearby include Manor Preparatory, Bradfield College, Pangbourne College, Downe House, Cranford House, Moulsford Preparatory, Abingdon Boys and The School of St Helen & Katharine.

All round the village there are numerous footpaths and bridleways leading onto the Downs and the ancient Ridgeway Path, and across delightful countryside to the neighbouring villages.

Property description

Ideally situated in the very heart of this quintessentially English village, enjoying a peaceful ambience and attractive outlook, Torpids is a simply stunning family residence which showcases proudly the architectural attributes of the property, both internally and externally.

Built to an exceptionally high standard in 2001, being of inspired architectural design with striking elevations of particular note, the property has more recently been extended under the watchful eye of award-winning architects, Anderson Orr.

Internally, traditional living is combined with that of a more contemporary air, most impressive and complimentary to the building as a whole, whilst striking a vision often unrivalled, affording particularly generous accommodation of approximately 4,094 sq ft.

Opening through from the covered entrance porch, you are greeted by a stunning galleried and vaulted reception hall that opens up to the 2nd floor. All principle reception rooms lead off, including the drawing room, dining room, and vaulted kitchen / breakfast room, with the family room and garden room being accessed directly from the vaulted kitchen / breakfast room itself, providing for an open modern way of living to one part of the house, whilst to the other more traditional and formal living is enjoyed.

From the galleried and vaulted reception hall an impressive staircase leads up to the galleried and vaulted 1st floor landing, off which 4 bedrooms, including 2 suites, and the family bathroom are located. The master bedroom suite is most spacious, with a delightful walk-through dressing room adjacent to the en-suite bathroom. There is a further bedroom suite with an en-suite shower room. To the 2nd floor the galleried landing continues, opening through to another spacious bedroom suite, with a dressing area and en-suite bathroom.

With a most impressive design and lifestyle is to be enjoyed, stylish and high-quality fixtures and fittings are entirely evident throughout, adding to the great architectural flair, and providing for a simply exquisite family home in a most delightful location.

Outside

Enjoying a sheltered private aspect with a wide hedged frontage to the quiet high street in the village, a wide splayed gravelled driveway opens through the walled and pillared access, leading up to the integral double garage and off to one side up to the double car port. A stone laid pathway leads off the driveway up to the property itself and along the side to the rear gardens.

Laid mainly to lawn, the gardens to the front are the subject of much care and attention, with a host of planted borders, shrubs, shaped hedging, and mature trees providing a pretty outlook. Off to one side, sheltered behind the car port, is a spacious timber gym, store, and wood store.

The rear gardens are as in the front laid mainly to lawn, with an extensive array of colourful planted borders, shaped hedging, shrubs, and mature trees providing a most attractive and private aspect, with an engaging ambience to be enjoyed. Much care has been taken to create great amenity within the grounds as a whole, with a children’s playing area off to one side, a delightful summerhouse and sunken ‘Al Fresco’ dining terrace to the other side. A wide splayed patio runs along the width of the vaulted kitchen, with the wide ‘bi-fold’ doors opening out, inviting inside outside living.

Both private and delightfully attractive, the gardens and grounds extend to approximately 0.35 of an acre and, are the subject of much care and attention, which will be evident upon viewing.

General services

Services: Mains water and electricity, and drainage are connected. Oil fired central heating.

Energy Performance Rating: D / 60

Postcode: OX11 9JE

Local Authority: The Vale Of White Horse District Council – Telephone: Directions

From our offices in the centre of Goring turn left and proceed down the High Street, across the river bridge and up to the top of Streatley High Street where at the traffic lights turn right. At the next road junction bear left onto the A417 to Wantage and continue out across the Downs. Continue through Blewbury and Upton is then the next village in a further 1 mile. On entering the village take the first turning right into High Street, and continue towards the bottom end, whereby Torpids will be found off on the left hand side, quietly tucked away.

Viewing

Strictly by appointment through Warmingham & Co.

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