A Detached Family Home in Shipton-under-Wychwood, The Cotswolds

About this property

South Lea sits behind a gravel drive on Mawles Lane, in one of the three Wychwood villages and three and a half miles from Burford. Built in Cotswold stone under a stone-tiled roof, with dormer windows the length of the elevation and an oak-framed cart barn to one side, it reads as a village house rather than a conversion.

Inside, the ground floor opens to a kitchen and dining room across the back of the house, with full-height glazing to the garden, and two sitting rooms, each with a log-burner, so the house works as well for two people in winter as for a full table at Christmas. A utility room takes the traffic of a family house.

There are six bedrooms: a principal super-king, two kings, one with an en-suite shower room, two twins and a double, served by two further family bathrooms on the first floor.

The gardens are enclosed to front and rear, laid mainly to lawn and framed by mature trees, with parking for five cars on the gravel.

Shipton-under-Wychwood keeps a primary school, a shop, a church and two pubs, with Burford, Charlbury and Chipping Norton all within a short drive. Charlbury station reaches London Paddington in about ninety minutes.