A HOUSE that has been home to a family for four generations in a little village near Bicester is now up for sale.

Anne Callow, who owns Home Farm House in Souldern, has decided it is time for someone else to enjoy the site.

She grew up there with her two sisters, brother and parents, but after her parents passed and her siblings moved away, she has put the property on the market.

Ms Callow said: "I’ve been a full-time carer for over 20 years and the house became a nursing home really because I looked after my mum and dad.

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"It’s sensitive for me to move but we don’t need a three-bedroom house anymore. I don't want to leave it but it's time.

"It’s too huge for me now. It would be really nice to see a new family enjoy it the way it has been in the past."

The building in Bates Lane was home to four generations of the Callow family and sits next door to what used to be part of the family's village shop in the 1960s.

Every room is a 'great size', and almost all have big windows, bringing in great natural light throughout.

The house is so tucked away you would have difficulty knowing it is there, but once you find it, everything from the large driveway, to the lengthy garden, set it apart as a 'uniquely unusual' property.

Ms Callow described her childhood growing up in the closely-knit village as 'idyllic' but some things are a lot different now.

She said: "People born in the village are very very close, the names go way back hundreds of years and there are family names on the war memorial at church.

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"I was involved in the village, I went to church, sang in the choir, ran the youth club, created our own entertainment, but now it’s very different to when I grew up in the late 60s.

"There was always a big group of children playing and boys playing football. Now the children are driven by car out of the village and there’s no Women's Institute or youth club anymore."

Ms Callow's family shop also did home deliveries around the village and the family had 'mobile shops' too.

Ms Callow spent time when she was young delivering groceries to people's doors and remembers her mother having to constantly order products from suppliers.

She added: "From a young age I delivered to families. We would arrive at their homes and have to put things in the fridge for them too.

"Our motto was: if we haven’t got it, we’ll get it. I remember there always being so many deliveries and orders from suppliers of cakes, cigarettes, biscuits, ice cream, cheeses, just constant deliveries because they were all small separate companies in those days."

The Callow's house features a fireplace, French doors, ceiling timber and conservatory.

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It also has a cellar with a high ceiling, flagstone floor and the remains of the coal chute giving the home a real feel for the history of the house.

There are three bedrooms, one of which is so spacious that Ms Callow and her two sisters, Mary and Jill, all managed to sleep in it with one double bed and one single bed.

To find out more about the property email interested@cridlands.co.uk.