4 bed detached house for sale

Charlbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2

The house lies on the favoured west side of the road and requires complete renovation/extension. It is set back from the road and has accommodation over two floors, comprising 2110 square feet, including the garage. The ground floor has the entrance hall, a study, the sitting room and a kitchen/breakfast room together with a utility room. The first floor comprises four bedrooms, a bathroom and a shower room. The garage is to the side of the house. The garden is west-facing and approached from the kitchen and the side of the house.

Iris Murdoch was a celebrated novelist and philosopher who lived at the house from 1989 to her death in 1999. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She was married to the academic literary critic and author John Bayley for 43 years until her death. The house has a Blue Plaque to celebrate her.

Charlbury Road is a prime residential road in the heart of the North Oxford Victorian Conservation Area. It is well positioned for Oxford's excellent range of schools with the Dragon, Wychwood and Oxford High School within walking distance and St Edward's, Magdalen, Headington Girls School, and Summer Fields within easy reach. It is close to University Parks for lovely walks along the river. There is good access to Summertown's day-to-day shopping facilities, including Marks & Spencer Food Hall, two other supermarkets, artisan bakers and coffee shops, bars and restaurants and the popular Nuffield Health and Racquets Club.

There are also dentist and doctor surgeries. There is a farmers market every two weeks in North Parade and in Jericho, there are two small supermarkets, a number of individual shops, the Phoenix Picturehouse cinema and a number of bars and restaurants. The Woodstock and Banbury roads join directly to the Oxford ring road connecting to the A40 and M40 to London. The Oxford rail station has regular services directly to London Paddington (approximately 53 minutes), and Oxford Parkway station has services to London Marylebone (approximately 62 minutes).