Location

Medius Cottage is set in the small hamlet of Aston Magna, a short distance from the popular villages of Paxford and Blockley. Blockley is an attractive village with a good range of facilities including the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, a local shop comprising a grocer, newsagent, post office, off-licence and café. Blockley has two public houses; The Crown Inn Hotel and The Great Western Arms. There is also primary school and a sports and social club. The village is surrounded by the undulating Cotswold countryside and close to the villages of Chipping Campden, Broad Campden, Bourton-on-the-Hill and Longborough, the latter of which has a privately owned Opera House with a season between May and August.

Description

Medius Cottage comprises a charming mid-terraced Cotswold stone cottage set back from the village lane, with a good sized and mature landscaped garden to the rear. This sunny cottage is very stylishly presented and retains considerable character with some superb stone floors, wooden shutters and doors and period features including exposed beams throughout and an open fireplace in the sitting room.

On the ground floor there is an interconnecting sitting room and dining room, with sliding doors out to the rear garden and a fitted kitchen with utility/larder. On the first floor there is an impressive vaulted principal bedroom with exposed A-frame and superb bespoke window overlooking the rear garden, a second bedroom and a well fitted family bathroom. Stairs rise to a second floor study/occasional bedroom 3.

Medius Cottage is approached from the village street via a path with garden to one side with Magnolia Grandiflora to the other side and laid partly to lawn with herbaceous borders. The principal gardens are set to the rear of the house, being landscaped and with a brick paved courtyard area immediately to the rear of the house with terraced seating area and Cotswold stone retaining walls. A central flight of steps lead up through the garden with herbaceous borders and a range of mature shrubs and plants. Continuing to a stone path and steps to a further raised seating area with Cotswold stone wall surrounding and continuing via further steps up to the remainder of the garden with herbaceous borders and clipped shrubs and plants to either side. The top garden is laid mainly to lawn with an open fronted store to the far end with mono pitched roof and separate pedestrian gate. Power and light are connected.

Directions

From Stow take the Fosse Way North to Moreton in Marsh. Proceed through the town and on the Northern edge, take the left hand turn signposted to Batsford just before the railway bridge. Proceed to Batsford (passing the Batsford Village Only sign) and then bear right signposted Aston Magna 1½ miles. Proceed to Aston Magna dropping down the hill in to the village and at the T- junction turn left, and Medius cottage will be found immediately on the left hand side.