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" This charming cottage style three bedroom semi-detached property has been built to a high specification and offers spacious and flexible living space. The property is situated down a quiet lane and benefits from lovely views to the front and rear. There is a large open plan kitchen breakfast family room with a stylish kitchen with solid oak work tops, a useful utility area and bi fold doors leading to the garden. Stylish bathrooms, tiled flooring to the kitchen and wet area, oak doors also compliment this beautiful home.

Accommodation The accommodation is based on a lovely reception hall with a stylish wc/cloakroom, access to the living room which has a fireplace (wood burner can be fitted). The stylish kitchen breakfast family room has been carefully designed and has a comprehensive range of units and solid oak work tops and a range of integrated appliances. The kitchen has a useful laundry cupboard and beautiful porcelain floor tiles throughout and bi-fold doors which lead to the garden. To the first floor are three good size bedrooms, the master benefits from built in wardrobes and a luxurious en-suite. The main bathroom has been finished to a high specification and benefits from having a separate shower cubicle. There are lovely views from the front and rear bedrooms. Outside The front garden has been left with top soil and is ready for turf or seeding. Enclosed by post and rail fencing and pathway leading to front door. The rear garden is a good size and benefits from backing onto open countryside, paved patio and access to the double car port. Situation Bourton is a small Vale village close to the boundary with Wiltshire. Unlike other nearby villages, particularly those to the south, there are no chalk/thatch cottages here. Instead, the cottages are built in the local grey stone, most with slate or stone roofs. It is thought that the original village was in the area now known as Lower Bourton to the north of the village. In the centre of the present village stands a pinnacle or monolith said to also have been built by the Danes to commemorate victory in in a battle with the Saxons. Also in the centre of the village are Pinewood School, in the grounds of the old Bourton House, and the Village Hall. Pinewood School is a coeducational school for children from Nursery through to prep school offering boarding and day facilities. The impressive looking village Hall was originally a Baptist chapel and is a fine example of Victorian Chapel Architecture with an attractive hammered type ceiling, built in 1851. At the southern edge of the village is the village church, St James's, built by public subscription of local stone quarried several hundred yards up the road from the church. The remains of the Wilts and Berks Canal passes just north of Bourton at the end of Steppingstone Lane and used to bring a lot of trade and goods to the village as well as being a means to export them. The canal was eventually superceded by the railway but, like many other villages along the routes of the canal and the railway, trade declined again when nearby Shrivenham station was closed.
Bourton is about five miles east of Swindon, just off the A420 Swindon to Oxford Road about a mile south of Shrivenham. "