Location Of The Day: Quainton, Buckinghamshire
While the ‘location, location, location’ cliché isn’t entirely true when it comes to choosing a brand new home, it will always be an important factor in the house-hunting process. The WhatHouse.com team is constantly looking around Britain for some of the best locations to consider purchasing a new build home.
Quainton is a village in Buckinghamshire located off the A41 between Aylesbury and Bicester. It’s a pretty place with a village green, numerous period cottages and some essential amenities such as a post office, village store and primary school. The George & Dragon is a highly rated pub that offers a great place to enjoy an afternoon or evening. There’s also a village hall, a 14th-century church, a restored Victorian windmill and, on the outskirts of the village, a football pitch, tennis courts and skate park.
Perhaps its most famous feature is the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. The town used to be on a mainline route but the station was closed in the 1960s. There’s now a museum and regular steam train days there, and it also hosts events and is frequently a film location.
Quainton is around 30-40 minutes from Oxford and Milton Keynes, making it a great place to commute to either while maintaining a countryside setting at home. The nearest National Rail station is Aylesbury Vale Parkway, which is about five miles away and offers regular services to and from London Marylebone.
For a wide array of shops, amenities and places for be entertained, you can reach Aylesbury in 15 minutes, and the Bicester Designer Shopping Village in 23 minutes.
The open fields and rolling green hills of Aylesbury Vale and the Chilterns are all within easy reach, ideal for walkers and cyclists.
Romney Meadows
If you like the idea of living in Quainton, there’s a new homes development underway there right now. Romney Meadows is being constructed by Barwood Homes and it currently offers a host of three-, four- and five-bedroom house types that will suit a range of buyers, and budgets between £394,995 and over £824,995. A variety of finishes have been used to create attractive street scenes, and it is located just up the road from the Railway Centre and around 15 minutes’ walk from the village green.
The specification of all homes includes gas central heating, double glazing, fitted kitchen, top-brand appliances, contemporary bathrooms and en suites, landscaped front gardens and private parking spaces/garages. One example of the current range of homes for sale here is ‘The Waddesdon’, a semi-detached three-bedroom home with an open-plan kitchen/dining/living area, WC and storage downstairs while upstairs there are two double bedrooms, an additional bedroom/study and family bathroom. Outside there are off-road parking spaces for two cars. This home is priced £394,995.
For a large executive property, ‘The Audley+’ might be the perfect choice. This double-fronted detached home is on the market for £824,995 and it offers very generous living space. Through double doors of the hallway are a very comfortable dual-aspect living room with feature fireplace and French doors to the garden. Also downstairs are a dual-aspect dining room, large kitchen/family room with doors to the garden, and a separate utility room. Upstairs, four of the five bedrooms are doubles, with the bonus of en suite and dressing room to bedroom one. The layout is completed by a single bedroom and the family bathroom. It comes with double garage and private driveway.
Find out more about Romney Meadows from Barwood Homes.
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