One-time winner of a Great British High Street award and highlighted by The Sunday Times as an often overlooked part of Oxfordshire which will become a boom town, Wantage is superbly situated in the Vale of the White Horse for all the main travel links, with the A338 providing easy access to the A34, M40, M4, plus the rail links in Oxford, Didcot, and Swindon. A picturesque Market Town, with historic ties as far back as Alfred the Great, Wantage has many high street and independent retailers with a plethora of bars, restaurants, and cafes in a thriving community. King Alfred's Academy provides secondary education and is now part of the Vale Academy Trust, working with good primary schools locally, including Charlton and Wantage CofE with Ofsted rated outstanding Stockham Primary School and Wantage Primary Academy completing the educational provision within the Town. With easy access to the beautiful surrounding countryside including the ancient Ridgeway and White Horse Hill, Wantage fuses the semi-urban and rural in one sublime package.

w3w.co/forecast.views.overt.

Retreat house for sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin, now houses. 1855, by William White. Coursed and dressed limestone rubble with flush red brick bands, and limestone ashlar dressings; old tile roof; brick stacks. Asymmetrical plan, with east chapel. 2 storeys to left, 2 storeys and attic to gable ends; 4-window range. Asymmetrical elevation. Porch with pyramidal roof has moulded pointed doorway, with alternately brick and limestone ashlar arch above. Recessed gable end to right. Similar left gable end brought forward and attached at right angles to left wing 2-window range. Pointed arches of alternate red brick and limestone ashlar over C20 casements. Gabled roof; lateral and ridge stacks. Similar style to rear left and right wings with 3-light Geometrical style wood casements. Chapel to right of front in similar materials has apsidal east end by A.B. Allin, 1888; side walls have 2-light Geometrical style windows, offset buttresses and 3-light chamfered mullioned square-headed window each side; Kentish-tracery quatrefoil light to rear. Gabled roof. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.254; National Monuments Record, BB79/6600,6601). Listing NGR: SU3953887810

Freehold.

There is a residents committee which determines the annual charge for the upkeep of communal areas on the private estate and the figure for 2023 was £xxx.xx.

For broadband speeds and mobile coverage please visit https://www.ofcom.org.uk/, if Rightmove have deleted this link then please click on our attached PDF brochure and click on the link there. If the subject property is a new build then please refer to the developer's specification.

All mains services connected.

Gas fired central heating to radiators.

E.

G.

The property is Grade II listed and does have wooden windows. The "barn" requires remedial work before it can be used and should only be entered under supervision and with extreme caution.