2 Bed Detached House For Sale

Renovation opportunity in a village setting.


Description

14 Frog Lane offers the opportunity to transform this Grade 2 listed thatched cottage into a two bedroom home. The property benefits from planning permission for extension and includes a generous garden and off street parking.

Thought to date from the mid 18th Century the cottage is of stone construction under a thatch roof and requires total renovation. Planning permission has been granted (WNS/2022/0938/FUL) for a single storeyl extension and listed building consent (WNS/2022/0840/LBC) for a various works including reinstating an attic space.

The cottage is set within almost a ¼ acre of garden, which features countryside views. The property also benefits from a brick outbuilding with further potential.

Location

Upper Boddington is a charming village located in undulating South Northamptonshire countryside close to the North Oxfordshire and South Warwickshire borders. The village includes a primary school, public house, church and village hall with playing field and playground.

There is a Coop and doctors surgery in nearby Byfield and more extensive shopping and leisure facilities are to be found in Banbury, Daventry, Southam and Towcester.

Access onto the national motorway system is at Junction 11 (Banbury) for the M40 and Junction 16 (Daventry) for the M1. Train services run from Banbury to London/Marylebone (from 59 minutes) and to Birmingham. Birmingham International Airport is 33 miles away.

Sporting and leisure activities include golf at Hellidon, Staverton and Cherwell Edge; motor racing at Silverstone; Banbury sailing club at Boddington Reservoir; horse racing at Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon and theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon, Northampton and Oxford.

Local schools include Boddington Church of England primary and secondary at Chenderit in Middleton Cheney. Private schools in the area Beachborough, Winchester House, Carrdus, St Johns Priory and Warwick Prep for junior and for senior schools Princethorpe, Kings High (girls), Warwick (boys), Kingsley, Tudor Hall Girls, Bloxham (co-ed) and Sibford (co-ed).

All distances and times are approximate.