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A substantial and imposing six-bedroom Victorian Cotswold-stone country house standing in around 2.2 acres of formal gardens and grounds on a private country lane near the village of Ardley, six miles south-west of Bicester. Built in 1880 in honey-coloured local limestone and extending to approximately 460 square metres over three storeys, the house combines its considerable original character — formal sash windows, period fireplaces, oak panelling — with a comprehensive recent renovation that has retained the period feel throughout. A gravel sweep leads to a panelled timber front porch opening onto a generous oak-panelled reception hall with parquet flooring, an open fire and the original oak staircase. A formal drawing room sits to the right of the hall with a bay window overlooking the gardens and a marble fireplace; a separate formal dining room sits opposite, panelled in painted timber. The library, lined in oak with a working fireplace, leads through to a substantial garden room with full-height glazing onto the formal gardens. The kitchen-breakfast room has been refitted in a Plain English specification. The first floor accommodates four principal bedrooms — three with ensuite bathrooms, including a principal suite with a dressing room — together with a family bathroom. Two further bedrooms and a shower room occupy the second floor. Outside, the grounds extend to approximately 2.2 acres in total, with formal walled gardens, herbaceous borders, kitchen garden, mature specimen trees, an ornamental lake and a small paddock at the far end. A separate stone-and-tile outbuilding offers stabling or workshop space. Council tax band H, EPC E. Freehold.

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