For Sale5 Bedroom Detached House in Main Street, Forest Hill, Oxford, OX33£940,000

An exceptional five-bedroom stone-built detached house with no onward chain. Set in a rural idyll with excellent access to Oxford and London. Stone Crest is a substantial house in a peaceful location, set back on the south side of a village street in an elevated position. It benefits from ultrafast full fibre broadband. The accommodation is spacious and versatile, enjoying a wealth of natural light from a mature southerly facing garden. The garden is not overlooked and affords an enviable outlook across a meadow. Entering a lobby area through a large oak front door, the ground floor flows well from a welcoming entrance hall, from where you can see through the house to the garden beyond. The central location of the stairwell gives the advantage of an entrance hall, kitchen, breakfast room, dining room and sitting room that can all be approached from either direction. This layout makes the whole area ideal for entertaining. Between each room, upstairs and downstairs, there are solid oak doors. Directly off the entrance hall are the modern kitchen and breakfast room, with an adjoining scullery. These are bright rooms with windows on three sides. All three have matching quartz worktops and contemporary storage units with soft-close drawers and doors. The main kitchen sink includes a Brita filtered drinking water tap. There is a house water softener installed under the sink. From the breakfast room one enters the dining room, which has windows on two sides, one facing the garden. Wide double doors open on to the sitting room. The sitting room also has windows on two sides, including two sets of glazed double doors to the garden room. There is a natural stone fireplace with a log-burning stove. The spacious garden room is constructed in oak over a stone stub wall. It is perfect for meals / parties even on the hottest of days, having many opening windows and roof-lights. There are attractive thin-strip hardwood blinds on all the windows - electrically operated on the roof zones. The floor is clay-tiled with underfloor heating. At the far end of the entrance hall, past a cloakroom, one turns right to find a secluded double aspect study/office. This is also useable as a single bedroom. Next to this is a small staircase leading up to a long loft bedroom/snug/office extending the full width of the garage below. It is a bright room with a double window overlooking the drive and a Velux roof window. Climbing the main stairs one emerges into a bright landing which has two windows: one overlooking the drive and village street to the north, the other facing west to catch the evening sunset perfectly. The master bedroom overlooks the garden and field beyond. There is a bright ensuite shower room with twin basins and a large walk-in shower. The walls and floor are tiled in high quality porcelain tiles. The floor is a sealed wet room type with electric underfloor heating. On this floor there are three further bedrooms, two with walk-in wardrobes and one with a basin. All four main bedrooms have south-facing windows overlooking the garden. giving an exceptional view out over the adjoining meadow, unspoilt by any other buildings. From sunrise the morning light floods into these rooms. There is a family bathroom with a double-ended enamel steel bath and another walk-in shower. The floor is a sealed wet room type with underfloor heating. The shower, as in the ensuite, is a power shower. Off the landing there is access via a ladder to a boarded attic for storage. This has full headroom in the main part. Outside at the front of the house is a driveway that accommodates six cars, a couple of outbuildings, and a beautifully equipped double garage. The double garage has solid oak doors at the front, two oak framed windows, and a back door giving direct access to the garden. The floor is fully tiled. There are two central heating radiators and full plumbing - water supply and drains. The space was designed for easy conversion to form an annexe or separate flat if needed. On the left side of the house, on the opposite side from the garage and passing under a pear tree, there is side access to the rear garden. The south-facing garden is a wonderful oasis, not over-looked, bordered by mature trees, and affording various shaded seating areas and locations for hammocks etc. Beyond the fence at the end of the garden there is a lovely outlook over the neighbouring field where, from time to time, one will see pheasants, horses, ducks or chickens. Near the house and around the octagonal sides of the garden room there is a useful patio area with steps up to the raised lawn. An insulated outbuilding with power and light at the bottom of the garden has two windows and is useable as a garden playroom or home office. South Oxfordshire Council Tax Band G 5 bedrooms (1 en suite), No onward chain, double garage, a range of useful outbuildings, potential to create a home office, private garden backing onto a meadow, driveway for several cars Reference OXF220273