8 bedroom detached house for sale

A Victorian, detached four bedroom house with three independent annexes and a separate outbuilding/garden room, with a double and a single garage and gated driveway parking, all set on a 3-acre plot including formal gardens and woodland and surrounded by farmland. Situated in open countryside, off a road leading to Long Crendon (an historic village known for lace making), Southfields House is thought to have been a coaching inn and the road now provides convenient links to amenities and transport. Dating back to the 1880s, possibly older, the main house has a typically 19th-century facade - double-fronted, rendered and painted beneath a slate roof. The rear of the house is a slightly later two storey extension, built of exposed stone with brick detail under a distinctive slate mansard roof. The house retains period features: open fireplaces, moulded skirting boards and door frames with original panel doors, as well as the brick cellar. The site of the property is notable, set in parkland-like gardens with lawns sloping down to the River Thame and including woodland with a lime walk. The three annexes, one a converted outbuilding and two modern purpose-built, are independent of the house and facilitate intergenerational living.