The £3.5m Headington home with a Shotover Park view

This house in Headington has 11 acres, nine bedrooms and three bathrooms all surrounded by the stunning views of Shotover Park near Oxford.

The home is on the market for £3.2m and was built in 1926 to a design by the noted architect Oswald Partridge Milne.

Only two families have lived in the home since it was built and in the Second World War.

It was used as a home for blind and partially sighted children, and Lord Clark, the noted British art historian, museum director and broadcaster, lived there for a period after the war.

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The property has 8450 sq ft of floor space which is currently arranged as two adjoining wings, but it could suit as either two separate dwellings with two annexes or as a large family home.

The reception rooms all have high ceilings and include an impressive drawing room with large fireplace and windows and doors overlooking the terrace and gardens.

There is a welcoming sitting room with fireplace and wood burning stove, a galley kitchen and a separate utility room, boot room and second kitchen.

There are five bedrooms on the first floor, four of which overlook the gardens, a balcony with garden views, two bathrooms, two cloakrooms and a study.

The other wing has its own entrance hall, with cloakroom off, and leads to the drawing room overlooking the gardens, a sitting room with fireplace and a kitchen or breakfast room with additional utility room.

On the first floor are three bedrooms, a study or fourth bedroom and a bathroom. The useful self-contained flat has a kitchen and sitting room on the ground floor, and there are two bedrooms and a shower room on the first floor.