Description
A Grade II listed four bedroom recent barn conversion with private gated access, a detached double garage with additional rooms above, and landscaped gardens. Situated along a gravelled driveway with private gated access, Playwrights Barn is a modern barn conversion with underfloor heating throughout. The main house is a four bedroom detached property with 1,639 sq. ft. of accommodation arranged over two floors. On the ground floor there is an open plan sitting/dining room, a kitchen/breakfast room, and a ground floor bedroom, which could also be used as a family room/study. There is also a downstairs shower/cloakroom. On the first floor there are two bedrooms accessed from the hallway, which share a bathroom, and a separate principal bedroom suite accessed from the sitting room with an en suite bathroom.
The double garage has a ground floor utility room which has a staircase to a two room studio above; both rooms have Velux rear windows and there is loft space above. The gardens are landscaped with off street parking for up to eight cars.
Kitchen Dining Room The front door accesses an entrance area which is open to the kitchen/breakfast room and an inner hallway with a shower/cloakroom and one of two staircases to the first floor, which has a storage cupboard beneath. The kitchen has stone flooring and wooden base and wall units with granite worksurfaces. Integral Fisher & Paykel appliances include a fridge/freezer and a double range oven with five gas burners beneath an extractor, and a Samsung dishwasher.
Ground Floor The house has two staircases: to the principal bedroom suite and to bedrooms two and three. The sitting/dining room has wooden flooring, exposed wooden beams and two sets of wooden bi-folding doors opening fully to the wooden decked patio and driveway. There is a freestanding log burning fireplace on a stone hearth.
Garage / Studio The detached garage has two double doors for vehicular access. PVC lockable door leads from the wooden patio to a ceramic floored utility room with a door to the garage and a staircase to the studio. The ground floor room has plumbing for white goods and a sink unit beneath a rear window with views. One of the studio rooms on the first floor is equipped as a home office, particularly useful for working from home.
Situation and Schooling Amenities in Grendon Underwood include a village shop, a post office, a school and a public house. Bicester (8.2 miles) and Aylesbury (11 miles) offer a wider variety of shops and social facilities. The property is in catchment for Waddesdon Secondary School and Aylesbury grammar schools; local private schools include Ashfold School (6.6 miles), Swanbourne House School (11.9 miles) and Stowe School (12.5 miles).
