Lime Crescent, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26
South East
£400,000
Listed on 23/10/2026
Listed on 23/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
4Type
DetachedArea
991 sqftFeatures
- Garage
- Garden
- Parking
Description
Taylors Estate Agents in Bicester are marketing this four-bedroom detached house in the Southwold area with no onward chain. The ground floor has an entrance hall, separate dining room and living room, alongside a fitted kitchen with appliance space. The dining room opens onto the rear garden and could potentially be reconfigured with the kitchen, subject to structural advice and any required consents.
Upstairs are four bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property is described as needing updating, offering scope for buyers to modernise it to their requirements. Outside, the plot includes a rear garden with lawn, patio and decking, plus driveway parking and a detached garage. Any extension or layout changes would require the relevant approvals and professional checks. Local amenities, Southwold Primary School, green spaces and transport connections are noted nearby.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.
52out of 100
Grade DWeak opportunity
Confidence: MEDIUM
This four-bedroom detached home offers a clear medium-scale project: the visible rooms are usable but dated, with scope to refresh the finishes and rethink the kitchen and adjoining dining space, subject to professional advice and any required consents. The established garden, driveway and detached garage add useful appeal, while the listing also suggests possible extension scope that would need to be checked rather than assumed.
The asking price is slightly above the local £/sqf average, so price is not a particular advantage here. More importantly, the asking price plus the £48,000–£85,000 renovation range leaves the likely all-in cost stretched against local benchmarks for this floor area; that comparison is with current local average value, not a forecast of post-works value. The project has attractive features, but the numbers make careful budgeting and purchase-price discipline important.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the dated finishes and flooring across the visible living areas and bedrooms to create a more cohesive interior.
- Rework the dated kitchen and consider its relationship with the adjoining dining room, subject to structural advice and consents.
- Make use of the established garden, driveway and detached garage; the listing also suggests possible extension scope, subject to feasibility and approvals.
Key risks
- At the asking price, adding the £48,000–£85,000 refurbishment range puts the projected purchase-and-works spend above the local average-value benchmark for this floor area, before fees and other purchase costs.
- Budget around £466,500 all-in — £66,500 of works on top of the asking price, leaving a gap of around 16% versus area norms for this sqft; we have not assumed a post-renovation resale figure.
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