Thorncliffe Road, Summertown, Oxford

The attractive mid-terrace house dates to 1898 and has been skilfully extended and updated in recent years to create a stylish and well-proportioned home. Character features abound, including a stained-glass front door, dado rails and sash windows. Downstairs, an inviting entrance hall opens to a reception room at the front of the house, with a bay window providing good natural light and concertina doors separating the room from a useful study area. At the heart of the home is the spacious kitchen and dining room, lit from above by a series of Velux windows. Adjoining the kitchen is a walk-in pantry, while to the rear of the house there is a stunning sitting room, overlooking the garden. Furthermore, there is a third reception room, a snug, at basement level, as well as a laundry room. The first floor has three good size bedrooms and a family shower room, with a spacious en-suite double bedroom on the second floor which would make a wonderful principal bedroom.

The house is approached over a private, block-paved driveway with space for two cars, bordered to one side by pretty shrubs. The rear garden is attractively landscaped with a terrace adjoining the house leading along gravelled paths lined by stocks, lavender and other vibrant flowering plants, to a further seating area and a charming summerhouse/garden room at the rear. Mature hedges and trees to either side of the garden provide a high degree of privacy, creating a delightful and peaceful oasis.

Thorncliffe Road is well placed for access to the day-to-day services of Summertown and Jericho, with the plentiful shopping, attractions and leisure facilities of the city centre under two miles away. There are excellent road communications with both the Banbury Road and Woodstock Road meeting the A40 to provide links to the West Country and London, the A34 and Oxford Parkway station for a regular service to London Marylebone, while Oxford station has frequent services to central London in less than an hour. The house is conveniently located for the well regarded selection of north and central Oxford schools, including The Cherwell School (rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted), together with a good selection of independent schools including Cherwell College, Oxford international College, Oxford Sixth Form College, New College, Christ Church Cathedral School and Wychwood.