Detached House for sale on

Goldsmith Close

Wantage, OX12

Tenure: Freehold

A smart, recently built, contemporary detached townhouse with no less than 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, garden, detached garage, driveway parking and the balance of an NHBC warranty. All set in a thoughtfully considered development with more than 100 acres of green space, just a 15 minute stroll into Wantage. Want the best of all worlds? You have it with this family home.

Exterior

A real head-turner property, this smart double-fronted, detached, cream rendered home is approached by a short path to the front door. Or, for a more informal route in, continue around the house to enter via the side gate or detached garage, and the French doors into the kitchen/diner.    

You have parking for at least two cars in front of the detached garage. Inside, through the up-and-over door, you have a tidy space with lighting and power, and access to the garden.    

Entrance

The light, bright, spacious hallway welcomes you and sets the tone for the rest of the house: calm neutral colour palette, floors unified by either a single colour of carpet or smart hardwearing laminate flooring, and a feeling of space.   

Kitchen/diner  

This is the heart and hub of this family home, with good proportions, masses of light and a very workable layout. Super stylish rich dark blue cabinets are complemented with rose gold-coloured handles and wood effect worktops and upstands. 

The chef of the house will love the 5-burner gas hob, beneath a filter hood, and the built-in eye-level double fan-oven and microwave/grill combo.   

Storage is in abundance with wide pan drawers, cupboards and wall units; the cohesive look being maintained with a built-in dishwasher and fridge-freezer. Even the boiler is hidden from view behind a matching door. The stainless steel 1½ bowl sink comes with swan-neck mono tap. Lighting is with low energy recessed ceiling lights in the kitchen, and a pendant light fitting in the dining area.

You have space for a large round or refectory-style table, somewhere to progress homework under a watchful eye, craft and enjoy many happy family meals together.

Double doors in the dining area conceal a handy laundry cupboard, with plenty of space for a secret home-barista work station or maybe even a cocktail bar.   

While the French doors open onto the enclosed south-facing garden and patio, and allow little people to run in and out in safety, and for you to keep the barbeque stocked and the chef refreshed on warm summer days.    

Sitting room

Windows on two sides ensure this dual-aspect room is filled with light, while offering views across the central park. This is a lovely calm, well-sized room capable of being  furnished in a number of configurations.   

Cloakroom

The ‘smallest room’ features a close-coupled toilet, pedestal hand basin with mono tap and tiled splashback, wall-hung radiator and extractor fan.   

FIRST FLOOR

The feeling of space and calm is maintained as you reach the first floor, with a generous landing providing space for a tallboy chest of drawers, or perhaps an easy chair and an ad-hoc quiet space. There’s also a handy cupboard for bedding, storing the vacuum cleaner and other first-floor bits and bobs.

Master bedroom

A good-sized double bedroom filled with light thanks to the French doors onto the glass Juliette balcony. Double built-in wardrobes and space for bedside cabinets and chests of drawers help to keep this room feeling calm and sanctuary-like.

Ensuite

The rather smart master bedroom ensuite has boutique hotel-inspired tiling, which is full height in the shower enclosure and half-height elsewhere. The wide shower has a thermostatic riser bar and with just two flat sliding doors, is wonderfully easy to keep sparkling clean. A heated ladder-style radiator keeps towels warm and dry. The loo is close-coupled and the basin wide with a smart mono tap. This is a lovely space to start and end the day.            

Bedroom 2

Another good-sized double bedroom with built-in wardrobes, space for bedside cabinets and/or chests of drawers, and views over the park. 

Bedroom 3

The smallest of the bedrooms, this makes a lovely nursery and could equally make a lovely child’s bedroom or a light, bright, space-to-think study for a home worker. The dual aspect ensures this room gets plenty of natural light. 

Family bathroom

The lovely pale blue-green-grey tiles really set the tone for this practical family bathroom. The full-length bath with glass screen is topped by a thermostatic shower on a riser bar, ideal for showers, bathing little people and cleaning the bath.

There’s a close-coupled loo, a wide basin with mono tap beneath a mirror and shaver socket, and on the wall a heated ladder-style radiator warms and dries towels. The obscured glass window is opening and there’s an extractor fan, should things get a bit steamy.

TOP FLOOR

The landing, while smaller than the first floor, still gives you space for a chest of drawers or bookcase. A light tunnel ensures even when every door is shut, you still have lots of natural light to illuminate things. 

Bedroom four

A lovely big bedroom, just under 13m², with views over the front of the house and the park beyond. You have room for chests of drawers, wardrobe and easy chair. With a high ceiling and windows on two aspects, you get great light throughout the day.

Bedroom five

The largest bedroom of the house, this would make a wonderful guest room with bathroom next door, or even an older child’s room, with space for chests of drawers, wardrobes, even an easy chair or boudoir chaise longue, desk and chair. The high ceiling and windows on two aspects adds to the feeling of space and light.

The attic is accessed via the loft hatch in this room. 

Shower room

The super smart green-grey-blue tiles of the first floor family bathroom are put to even greater effect here, where the light from the Velux really accentuates the colour.

The tiles also contrast beautifully with the clean white of the bathroom suite: the close-coupled loo, wide basin with mono tap and full-length bath with shower over and glass screen. The white ladder-style towel rail warms loo rolls and towels.

OUTSIDE

The south-facing L-shaped garden is fully-enclosed behind a combination of wood panel and brick post and wood panel fences. This is wonderfully low maintenance garden, with some beds and scope to add more planting of your choice. Currently laid mostly to grass, it has a slabbed patio for al fresco meals and lazy days on outdoor sofas.    

To the right is the detached garage, with a side door for quick access and an up-and-over garage door for the car. Inside you have power and lighting, particularly handy should you want to put it to work as a workshop, gym, studio or some other use.   Outside is an electric car charger.

Situation

Goldsmith Close sits on the Kingsgrove development, a new purpose-built community that has more than 100 acres of green space and parks, and which will grow to a little over 1500 homes. 

Within a short walk you’ll have a nursery, primary school, medical centre, café, church, care home, workspaces, sports areas, community orchard, allotments and more – some are here now, some still in development.

Transport links

Walk – it’s roughly a 15-minute walk to Wantage, 5 minutes to your nearest bus stop, 15 minutes to your nearest pub and 20 minutes to Sainsbury’s.

Bike – Cycle routes connect you to Harwell Campus in 30 minutes and Gove in 5 minutes. Along the Reading Road, Wantage is just a 7 minute cycle.

Bus – The local X36 bus, your nearest bus stop is roughly a 5 minute walk, takes you into Wantage and Grove, Milton Park and Didcot.

Car – Wantage town centre is just over a mile away. Didcot is a 20-minute drive. Oxford and Reading are both close by.

Train – Your nearest station is Didcot Parkway, which connects you with London Paddington in 42 minutes, Reading in 12 minutes and Bristol Temple Meads in 1 hour. Oxford Station takes you to Paddington in 1 hour, Banbury in 17 minutes and Birmingham New Street in 1 hr 10.

In the area

Wantage is a wonderfully unspoilt historic market town, famous for being the birthplace of King Alfred the Great in 849 and home to former Poet Laureate, John Betjeman. 

It has been both a Roman settlement and a station for Royalist troops in the English Civil War. More recently, it was home in the 19^th Century to Lord Wantage, a founder of the British Red Cross, and the benefactor who paid for the marble statue of King Alfred which stands in the market place today.

Today the town has a selection of pubs and restaurants, with more in the surrounding villages and towns. It also has cricket, tennis, football and badminton clubs, a Leisure Centre, and coaching centre.

The ancient Ridgeway is nearby and a must for any walkers, the Letcombe Brook, a rare chalk stream, flows through the town, and it is close to the North Wessex Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).   

Schooling

Schools in the area include:

Primary: Wantage Primary Academy, on the Kingsgrove development, which was rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in May 2023

Secondary: King Alfred’s Academy

In addition, there is a wide range of private schooling available that includes: Moulsford Prep School and Cranford House School in Wallingford, Pangbourne College, Abingdon School, Bradfield College, Radley College and more.

Services

Central heating and hot water are gas fired.

A megaflow unvented mains pressure tank for hot water.

The heating is zoned upstairs/downstairs with Nest smart thermostats for each zone and TRVs on radiators.

Mains gas, electricity, water and drainage.

7kw EV charger with captive lead.

Connectivity

Broadband: According to Openreach, Ultrafast Full Fibre is available at up to 1000Mbps.

Mobile: According to Vodafone, mobile coverage with their 5G service is ‘Good indoors and outdoors’.

Council

The local authority is Vale of White Horse. 

The Council Tax band is F. 

Tenure

Freehold, with an estate rent charge, currently £124.18 per quarter, which contributes to the maintenance of the communal grounds and facilities.  

EPC rating: B. Council tax band: F, Tenure: Freehold,