5 bed detached house for sale

Thame Road, Piddington, Oxfordshire OX25

Piddington Place is a stunning Arts & Crafts village house, beautifully restored and sympathetically extended to create an exceptional family home of over 5000sqft, set within charming mature gardens and grounds of about 1.2 acres. There is further potential (subject to consents) to convert the stables.

Dating from the early 1900s, the house retains a wealth of period character including decorative timbering, bay windows, fireplaces, parquet flooring and a distinctive turret.

The accommodation is wonderfully light and well balanced, centred around an outstanding open plan kitchen/garden room with underfloor heating, glazed dome roof lantern and doors opening onto the terrace and gardens. Elegant reception rooms, generous bedroom accommodation and a superb principal suite combine to create a house ideally suited to modern family living and entertaining.

Outside, mature landscaped gardens of circa 1.2 acres surround the property, with expansive lawns, terraces, productive raised beds and a detached studio ideal as a home office or gym. A substantial outbuilding provides garaging, stores and former stables with further potential, subject to consent.

Piddington is a charming and well-regarded village situated in north-east Oxfordshire, close to the Buckinghamshire border. Surrounded by attractive countryside, the village enjoys a strong sense of community centred around the parish church of St Nicholas and village hall. The well-regarded Bull & Butcher public house is located nearby in Ludgershall, while further day-to-day amenities can be found in Brill. More comprehensive shopping, leisure and cultural facilities are available in Thame, Bicester and the city of Oxford.

The area is particularly well served for schooling, with a range of highly regarded state and independent schools nearby including Ashfold, Stowe and the Oxford schools.

Communications are excellent, with regular rail services to London Marylebone from Haddenham & Thame Parkway and Bicester North. The M40 is readily accessible at Junctions 7 and 9, providing convenient connections to London, Birmingham and the wider motorway network.