3 bedroom

Three bedroom mid-terrace cottage. The entrance hall gives access to a downstairs cloakroom with a large under stairs storage cupboard. The sitting room has double doors leading into the separate dining room and there are French doors from here through to the conservatory. The fitted kitchen is also accessed from the sitting room and has a range of wall and floor units with an AEG electric hob and double oven, and a Neff cooker hood. A freestanding washing machine and fridge/freezer are included in the asking price if required. There are two water softeners fitted in the property, one for household water and the other for drinking water. A part glazed door leads out from the kitchen to a small patio area at the rear. On the first floor there are three bedrooms. Two of these are doubles, with fitted wardrobes, and the third is a single room which could be used as a study. There is also a large, refurbished shower room on this floor. The property has electric storage heating and triple glazing in most rooms. There is also a boarded and insulated loft, accessed via a folding ladder, which provides useful extra storage.

Set close to the centre of Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire and in an area of great archaeological interest, Herringcote is within easy reach of the village shops and the Abbey. Martins Lane provides a direct route from Herringcote into the High Street. These retirement properties are built around a garden courtyard with a private road, lawns, herbaceous borders, and an attractive dovecote.

The village itself overlies the site of the small Romano-British walled town. In AD 635 Cynegils, King of the West Saxons, was baptised here by St. Birinus, founder of the first cathedral-church of Dorchester and bishopric of Wessex - later removed to Winchester. In the 9th century, Dorchester became a centre of a vast Mercian diocese stretching from the Thames to the Humber. After the Norman Conquest, the See was transferred to Lincoln, and about 1140, Bishop Alexander founded the Augustinian Abbey of Saints Peter, Paul and Birinus on the site of the former Saxon Cathedral. Built to a cruciform plan, the church was magnificently enlarged over the next two centuries, culminating in the remarkable chancel extension of 1340 with its three great windows, including the famous Tree of Jesse.

Dorchester is particularly well placed to take advantage of the major road and rail connections in the south of England. It is situated just off the A423 from Oxford (8 miles) to Henley-on-Thames (16 miles). There is a mainline station at Didcot (5 miles), with fast and frequent trains to London (Paddington 40 minutes). The M40 (Junction 7) is about 8 miles away. Heathrow can be reached easily by car, or by coach from Oxford, in less than an hour. Abingdon and Wallingford are the nearest towns and both are less than six miles away.