Whitchurch Hill, Oxfordshire

The Hatchgate is a handsome double-fronted red brick property offering almost 4,100 sq ft of light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged over four floors. It has been sensitively converted to provide two front-aspect maisonettes and two rear-aspect apartments, part of which is currently undergoing renovation to maximise period features including high ceilings and original fireplaces.

The accommodation in the first maisonette flows from the original front door and entrance hall, and briefly comprises a drawing room and a family room—both with feature cast iron open fireplaces, the former with fitted storage, and the latter with a large side-aspect bay window. Additional ground floor accommodation includes a dining room and a principal bedroom with an en suite bathroom. A spiral staircase leads down to a 24ft kitchen/dining room with flagstone flooring, an en suite shower room, and a door to the front aspect. A separate rear entrance provides access to a ground floor apartment, which offers an entrance hall, an open-plan kitchen/sitting/dining room, a double bedroom with fitted storage, and a modern mosaictiled bathroom.

External stairs rise to a communal first-floor hallway, which provides access to two separate private entrance halls. The first leads to a rear-aspect apartment featuring a fitted kitchen, two double bedrooms—one with fitted storage and the other offering potential use as a reception room if desired— and a modern family bathroom. The second entrance hall opens into a front-aspect maisonette, which includes a drawing room with a feature fireplace and an office, both of which could alternatively serve as additional bedrooms. The maisonette also offers a fitted kitchen, a double bedroom, a contemporary mosaic-tiled shower room, and stairs rising to the vaulted second floor. Here, there is a further double bedroom and a stylish mosaic-tiled bathroom featuring a corner bath and an exposed brick feature wall.

Having plenty of kerb appeal, the property benefits from front and side aspect parking, the properties to the rear being approached through twin brick pillars and double iron gates over a side driveway providing further private parking and giving access to a detached garage with garden shed. The generous garden to the side and rear is laid to areas of level lawn and features a paved terrace area, the whole screened by mature trees.

Located on the fringes of the Chilterns National Landscape escarpment, the quiet hilltop village of Whitchurch Hill has a village green, church and pub. At the bottom of the hill on the Oxfordshire bank of the River Thames, Whitchurch on Thames lies opposite to Pangbourne on the Berkshire side of the river, both villages 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 give easy access to recreational pursuits including walking, cycling and riding routes, tennis courts, football pitches, a play area, bowling club and Bradfield College’s members-only facilities. Communications links are excellent: the M4 gives access to the A34, motorway network, London and its airports, and trains from Pangbourne mainline station (1.7 miles) reach London Paddington in around 45 minutes.