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Cornish Road, Chipping Norton

South East

£250,000

Listed on 24/10/2026

The listing

Property details

Bedrooms
3
Type
Terraced
Area
1098 sqft

Features

  • Garden
  • Parking

Description

This three-bedroom mid-terraced house on the edge of Chipping Norton has a porch and entrance hall with a ground-floor cloakroom, separate dining and sitting rooms, a kitchen and a conservatory. French doors from the sitting room open onto the rear garden. Upstairs are two double bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, a single bedroom and a shower room. Outside, the property has a lawned front garden and a west-facing rear garden with a paved terrace, mature flower beds and a stone-built shed. A driveway provides off-road parking for one vehicle. The house is described as requiring modernisation throughout, offering scope for a purchaser to update the accommodation. Mains gas, electricity, water and drainage are connected, and gas central heating is stated. Chipping Norton provides a range of shops and services, schools, leisure facilities and a community hospital. The listing gives approximate distances of 12.9 miles to Banbury, 19.7 miles to Oxford, 15.5 miles to Witney and 22 miles to Stratford-upon-Avon. Mainline rail services to London are available from Charlbury and Kingham.

WHOTS analysis

Our WHOTS verdict

An internal assessment of the opportunity to acquire, improve and create value.

78out of 100
Grade BGood opportunity

Confidence: MEDIUM

At £250,000, this three-bedroom Chipping Norton terrace is priced at £228/sq ft against a local average of £433/sq ft, making the asking price a standout acquisition opportunity. The dated finishes across the living spaces, bedrooms and kitchen, plus the older shower-room fittings and overgrown garden, give a buyer clear scope to modernise and add their own style; the available views show no obvious major structural failure.

The £30,000–£55,000 renovation range puts the midpoint purchase-plus-works figure at £292,500, well below the implied current local average value of £475,379. That comparison is not a GDV and excludes stamp duty and fees, but the combination of a low entry price and a defined, medium-scale improvement project makes this a strong-value prospect.

Key opportunities

  • Acquire at a notably low asking price relative to the local £/sq ft average.
  • Modernise the dated kitchen and refresh the shower room as part of a coherent update.
  • Update decoration and flooring across the living spaces and bedrooms, and bring the west-facing garden’s planting and paved areas back into shape.

Key risks

None recorded.

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Map

Location

Cornish Road, Chipping Norton
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Transport

Nearest stations

  • Kingham Rail Station

    3.9 miles

    Train · Kingham

  • Ascott-under-Wychwood Rail Station

    4.6 miles

    Train · Ascott-under-Wychwood

  • Shipton Rail Station

    5.0 miles

    Train · Shipton-under-Wychwood

  • Charlbury Rail Station

    5.0 miles

    Train · Charlbury

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Finance

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Current average 2-year fixed rate is 4.45%

Current average variable rate is 6.60%

Monthly Repayments
£944
Based on a loan of £187,500 over 30 years at 4.45% interest

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