Location

Manor Farmhouse is located to the south of the popular village of Hornton in North Oxfordshire.

Hornton is situated approximately 6.9 miles to the north west of Banbury and on the edge of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The village benefits from The Dun Cow Pub, pre-school and a primary school. Banbury provides a variety of high street shopping with independent shops and supermarkets including, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Lidl, and a range of local amenities including historic pubs, restaurants, cafes and cinema. Further afield Stratford upon Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Oxford provide a wider range of cultural, shopping and recreational activities. Chipping Norton is a popular community, well-known for Soho Farmhouse members’ club and Daylesford Organic Farm Shop in the locality.

The area enjoys good road connections, being equidistant between Junctions 11 and 12 of the M40, and railway services to London and Birmingham from Banbury station.

The area is renowned for its excellent educational facilities including Warwick Boys’ School, The Kingsley School, Stratford-upon- Avon Girls’ Grammar School, King Edward VI School, Tudor Hall at Bloxham, Winchester House Prep School along with further schooling options in Oxford.

Description

Enjoying an elevated position with views over the countryside, the site of the current 3 bedroom bungalow and farm buildings benefits from planning permission for demolition and replacement with a 5 bedroom farmhouse and outbuildings.

Proposed Development

The planning permission under planning reference 19/00157/F provides consent for the construction of a substantial family home, extending to just over 4,000 square feet (with attic storage), built to a traditional vernacular style of local Hornton ironstone under a slate roof, together with a range of outbuildings in a courtyard setting, including stables and storage. The consent allows for the house of generous proportions with spacious rooms enjoying southerly views, and set away from the road in a private position. Development has commenced for planning purposes.

Outside, there will be gardens and grounds together with a large turning circle and access to a separate stable yard.

Current Site

At present the site comprises a 3 bedroom bungalow built in the 1960s of brick and rendered brick construction, under a tiled roof. The bungalow is currently let on a periodic Assured Shorthold Tenancy and was built subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition. However, a Certificate of Lawful Use of Existing Development was given under planning reference 12/00270/CLUE in 2012 “to allow non-compliance with condition 2 of permission B.947/64 relating to agricultural occupancy”.

On the site of the proposed new dwelling, are also three farm buildings comprising:
1. General Store: A timber framed barn with a fibre cement roof and dirt floor. Measures about 27.5m x 19.5m.
2. Cattle Yard: A steel portal frame building with a fibre cement roof enclosed with concrete block walls and part Yorkshire timber boarding. Part fibre cement cladding. Measures about 27.5m x 18.5m.
3. General Store: A concrete portal frame building with a corrugated iron fibre cement roof, cladding and concrete floor. Measures about 13.7m x 18m.


The Property is offered for sale with about 20 acres (8.09 hectares).

Please note that the Property forms part of a larger farm being Manor Farm, Hornton. Manor Farm is a productive arable farm split into three contiguous parcels and a separate arable holding at Alkerton with two modern farm buildings, extending to 482.89 acres (195.41 hectares).