Property description

SITUATION Great Haseley is an attractive and popular village in a conservation area with fine stone houses, old thatched cottages, an original stone windmill, Listed Tithe Barn and Georgian Manor. There is a thriving village community, which owns the village public house (The Plough) as well as a village hall offering a variety of gatherings such as yoga, tennis club with two courts and cricket club with village clubhouse both located at the spacious recreation ground. There are primary schools in the neighbouring villages of Great Milton and Little Milton and a number of private and state schools in Wheatley, Thame and Oxford. Nearby Great Milton offers a village shop/post office and Raymond Blanc\‘s famous hotel and restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat\‘ Saisons. The village is well located for the M40, which provides good access to London and the Midlands. Railway stations are at Oxford, Haddenham and Thame Parkway and Didcot providing mainline services to Marylebone and Paddington. The Oxfordshire Golf Club and the Waterstock Golf Club are nearby. There are comprehensive shopping facilities in the nearby market town of Thame with its weekly market, or the city of Oxford has extensive shops, theatres, museums etc. 

DESCRIPTION A delightful Grade II listed stone cottage believed to date back to the early 18th century. The property has been sympathetically renovated throughout and extended to include a beautifully appointed Shaker-style kitchen with Belfast sink, oak breakfast bar and countertops, \‘Fired Earth\‘ porcelain floor tiling with underfloor heating and range of matching base and wall units. The kitchen opens onto both the sitting room and the spacious connecting hallway with exposed brickwork, oak framed windows and travertine flooring with underfloor heating, which in turn leads to the dining room also with feature exposed stonework. The charming sitting room boasts a beamed ceiling with inglenook fireplace, wood burner and oak fitted corner unit. The spacious \‘Fired Earth\‘ tiled bathroom is also located on the ground floor and offers a double vanity unit, heated mirror, bath and separate walk-in shower with underfloor heating.



On the first floor there are three bedrooms with character features to include exposed beams and stonework, the bedrooms are accessed by two separate staircases as laid out on the floorplan and benefit from oak fitted wardrobes. Two of the bedrooms are interconnecting so could equally provide a spacious master bedroom suite.



Externally the property benefits from very pretty and well maintained gardens c.85\‘ overlooking paddocks to the left hand side & rear. The private garden is laid to lawn with herbaceous boarders containing a variety of shrubs and flowering plants. There is also a good size summer house, mature apple tree, paved terrace and brick shed (former outside privy). The property also features a gravel drive providing off street parking for several vehicles. There are numerous walks and open spaces in the village including a children\‘s playground, recreation ground, cricket pavilion and tennis courts.