Hill Bottom, Whitchurch Hill, Oxfordshire

Apple Tree Cottage is an appealing white-rendered semi-detached family home, sensitively extended by the current owners through the addition of a lovely conservatory to offer more than 1,500 sq ft of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over two floors. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space combining modern amenities with period features including casement glazing and original fireplaces, the accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with quarry-tiled flooring, useful storage, and cloakroom. It comprises a generous drawing room with bespoke shelving, feature open fireplace and patio doors to a spacious conservatory with glazed roof, tiled flooring and low-level brick-built walls topped by large picture glazing incorporating French doors to the rear terrace.
The conservatory opens into a good sized kitchen with quarry-tiled flooring, ceiling beams, a range of country-style wall and base units, complementary worktops, a two-oven Aga, double Belfast sink, modern integrated appliances, and a door to the integral garage/utility room. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a front aspect snug/ study with feature fireplace, suitable for a variety of uses.
Stairs rise from the reception hall to the first floor, giving access to the property’s four bedrooms, two to the front aspect and two to the rear, two benefitting from useful fitted storage, and to a modern family bathroom with bath and separate shower.

Screened by mature hedging and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached through a five-bar gate over a low-maintenance gravelled front garden flanked by a concrete side driveway providing private parking and giving access to the integral garage/utility room which benefits from a door to the rear aspect. The generous enclosed garden to the rear is laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked flower and shrub beds and features numerous seating areas, a garden shed, a timber-built garden office with double doors to a spacious wraparound decked terrace at the end of the garden and a generous paved terrace off the conservatory, the whole ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.

Located on the fringes of the Chilterns National Landscape escarpment, the quiet hilltop village of Whitchurch Hill has a village green, church, and popular pub. At the bottom of the hill on the Oxfordshire bank of the River Thames, Whitchurch on Thames village lies opposite to Pangbourne village on the Berkshire side of the river, both offering comprehensive local amenities. Nearby Reading offers more extensive shopping, service and leisure facilities.
The rolling Berkshire Downland to the south and the start of the Chiltern Hills to the north provide easy access to recreational pursuits including walking, cycling and riding routes, riverside meadows and paths, tennis courts, football pitches, a play area, bowling club and members-only facilities at Bradfield College. Communications links are excellent: the M4 gives access to the A34, motorway network, London and its airports, and trains from Pangbourne mainline station reach London Paddington in around 45 minutes.