High Street, WATLINGTON, OX49

The Old Vicarage, dating back to the 1720s, is featured in Pevsner's Oxfordshire Buildings of England and the Shell Guide.
The entrance hall leads to a sitting room with an open fireplace, oak floorboards, and sash windows, and an adjacent dining room with a fireplace and pine floorboards. The country kitchen has granite countertops, an Aga, a dishwasher, and French doors to a conservatory. The utility room offers appliance space and connects to a garage with planning permission for conversion.
Upstairs, the principal bedroom includes a fireplace, built-in wardrobes, sash windows, and a convertible dressing room. Bedrooms two and three have wash hand basins, and the family bathroom features a bathtub, walk-in shower, and vanity wash basin. The second floor offers additional space, including a bathroom, two bedrooms, and a playroom that could be an annex.

Outside

The Old Vicarage is set within mature gardens overlooking the primary school and 12th-century Church of St. Margaret. A gravel "in-and-out" driveway provides ample parking, with an attached garage once used as the Vicar's study. The property features well-established flower beds, mature trees, and shrubs.
The south-easterly rear garden offers scenic views across open fields, with a kitchen garden, raised beds, and mature trees. A brick-paved patio outside the conservatory leads to a lawn area, and at the rear, an inviting patio with a living willow fence and ornamental pond completes the garden.

Situation

Situated in the desirable village of Lewknor, on the edge of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and near Aston Rowant Nature Reserve, the village offers a range of amenities, including a pre-school, Lewknor Primary School (Ofsted "good"), a 12th-century parish church, The Leathern Bottle pub, village hall, and recreation ground.
Secondary schools include Icknield Community College and Lord Williams's School in Thame, with school buses to Cranford House, The Oratory, and Abingdon schools. Other well-regarded schools in Oxford and Abingdon include The Dragon, Headington, St. Edward’s, and Radley College.
Nearby Watlington and Thame provide local shopping, while Henley-on-Thames and Marlow offer extensive leisure facilities. Oxford is accessible via the M40, with the Oxford Tube bus service running to London and Oxford 24/7.

Property Ref Number:

HAM-0717