Warnborough Road, Oxford

This is a lovely house with good sized and well laid-out family accommodation over four floors. The house has been extended to create a better flow and more usable accommodation, to improve the quality of the lower ground floor living / kitchen areas and to enhance the connection to the attractive west facing walled rear garden. In addition, new bathrooms were created on the upper floors and building services were updated. The kitchen is by Bulthaup and incorporates Gaggenau and Miele appliances.

The side and rear extensions wrap the rear corner of the original house and incorporate at lower ground floor level a structural glass cube that floods light into the new kitchen. The cube connects to the rear garden via a sunken dining courtyard.

When viewed from the front, the extension is deferential to the prevalent architectural style of the conservation area and presents a façade of Oxford stock bricks and sliding sash windows below a natural slate roof. To the rear the extension is however much more informal and is clad in grey stained Siberian larch batten and board timber. Internally the side extension provides a utility room at the lower level, and a guest bedroom suite above.

The gardens are a particular feature having been landscaped by the garden designer Angus Thompson. They are walled, west facing, beautifully laid-out and stocked. The garden uses contemporary materials in a confident scale, referencing the 'glass box' extension.
Bold, wide steps connect the lower-level seating terrace with the upper garden, perfect for entertaining and outdoor dining. The front reception room has also benefitted by the creation of a sunken front garden bringing more light to the space. There is a useful garden shed, with power and off-street parking to the front.

Warnborough Road is located in Walton Manor and was originally owned by St John's College, Oxford and houses in the road were first leased by the college between 1877 and 1896. At the southern end of the road is Leckford Road and at the northern end Farndon Road, two roads that lead west off Woodstock Road, which is parallel to Warnborough Road, as such there is minimal traffic flow. It is in a conservation area flanked to the west by Port Meadow and the University Park to the east. Central North Oxford, as it is known, is the most sought-after area with in the historic City. Oxford is extremely well served and the house is close to the shops and restaurants of North parade and Walton street. The city is famed for its schooling, the house is within the catchment area for the popular primary school St Philip and St James and close to the Dragon, Oxford High, Leckford Place, St. Edwards and Magdalen College School to name a few. Summertown, to the north, gives a good range of shops including many of the major supermarkets.