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"A wonderful family home with impressive origins dating back to the 16th Century with a 14th Century Dovecote, charming gardens and land.

HOUSE AND GROUNDS
Grange Farm features a stone covered entrance porch leading into a main hallway with flagstone flooring. To the right is a drawing room with an open fireplace and dual aspect windows. The dining room, to the left, has original stone flooring and an Inglenook fireplace with a wood burning stove, perfect for formal dining. Opposite is a cloakroom utility area, followed by a kitchen with exposed beams, an Aga, and a central island. The breakfast room, with access to a small cellar and double doors to the side garden, completes the ground floor.

On the first floor, the principal bedroom boasts a feature window seat and a south facing view, connected to a Jack & Jill bathroom. Additional bedrooms include a double with a feature fireplace and a generous room overlooking the gardens to the rear. There s also a family bath and shower room, along with a bedroom office with exposed beams and vaulted ceilings. The second floor features a study area, two double bedrooms with dormer windows, and a central bathroom serving both rooms.

Grange Farm is accessed via a gravel driveway leading to a central lawn circle with well maintained borders. To the left is a south facing courtyard and dairy featuring original cobbled floors, an inglenook fireplace, and a wash house basin, currently used as a private games room. A large workshop, once a brewery, lies to the right, with separate stairs leading to spacious lofts that could be converted subject to planning permission but offer useful storage. Adjacent to the house is a stable garage with additional storage, surrounded by roses in summer.

To the left of the driveway, a well kept paddock with a mature walnut tree is bordered by stone walls. Behind it is a croquet lawn, log store, stone outbuilding, and a side garden with mature trees. At the rear, a vegetable garden, lawn, fruit trees, and a 14th century dovecote surrounded by topiary and roses complete the property, with a wild meadow paddock and chicken house beyond.

ABOUT THIS AREA
Brize Norton, a former agricultural village, is located between Burford and Bampton. The village features period stone houses, a Norman church, a community hall, a caf in the sports pavilion, and two traditional pubs. Nearby Carterton offers shops, supermarkets, and a leisure centre, while Witney has high street stores, boutiques, and a cinema.

Burford, known as the "gateway to the Cotswolds," has shops, caf s, pubs, a garden centre, and the Cotswold Wildlife Park. Larger towns like Oxford, Cheltenham, and Cirencester are within reach for more amenities.

Transport is excellent, with the A40 providing access to the M40 and M5, and rail stations at Oxford Parkway and Charlbury offering quick services to London. Brize Norton has a good primary school, with Burford s secondary school and several independent schools nearby. There are also numerous sporting and cultural options, including golf, racing, and theatres in the region.

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