5 Bed Detached House, Gated, OX1

Gated 5 bedrooms detached home.

3 reception rooms, library, 2 en suite rooms, shower room and separate toilet

Stunning Japanese garden and woodland setting.

Amazing views from each window including panoramic views over the city spires of Oxford.

Only 2 miles from Oxford. The property benefits from convenient for the A34 and Oxford ring road, connecting to the M4 and M40 motorways, with the regional centres of Birmingham, Newbury and Swindon and Bath all within easy reach. Communications by rail are also excellent with fast trains from either Oxford or Didcot a hub linking to London Paddington or Bristol. Both taking about fifty and forty five minutes respectively. In addition Oxford Parkway station has services to London Marylebone in fifty six minutes.

This gated 5-bedroom country house on a private road located in the most sought-after residential area in Oxford. Siskins, is named after a rare finch and it reflects the variety of woodland birds that visit the garden.  Every morning the house is woken up by song birds.

Originally built in the 1930's Siskins has undergone a series of extensions and modernizations and today offers stylish living, it offers bright, balanced spaces with nature views from all rooms. Surrounded by woodland you can literally bathe in the sight and sounds of nature.

This beautiful house and gardens have been recently updated to a high standard by the current owners. There is an English and Japanese style garden and grounds which wrap around the home and decked heated pool. The garden allows you to enjoy life at its most peaceful, with hundreds of species of plants with specialist trees in the garden. The garden has every aspect of a well maintained small park with formal lily ponds and informal rock pool.  In May you can enjoy the scent of two towering canopies of wisteria; vines archways and specimen trees including medlar, mulberry, cherry, vanilla, quince , oak, beech, pine and birch and Chinese jasmine. There are also many fruit trees such as apple, cherry, plums and many other fruit trees and bushes. The garden has a raised allotment, serviced by a glasshouse, providing an organic vegetable garden. In addition, the house is surrounded by beautiful woodland, with the historic Bagley Wood just 50 meters from the doorstep.

Siskins is situated within the catchment of many of the very best schools in England. Catchments including: Magdalen College School, Abingdon preparatory and Abingdon School, Radley College,  and Chandlings and also within easy distance to central Oxford where The Dragon School, St Edward's, Summer Fields, Wychwood and Oxford High School. Being so close to Oxford Siskins has the rare advantage of looking over the city skyline of the famous University and it’s college spires.