A Grade-II listed house in two-thirds of an acre comes with planning permission to extend and remodel the interior.

Swinbrook Place in Swinbrook, near Burford, started life in the 1840s as two cottages but is now a single property.

It has many period features including cast-iron lattice windows, open fireplaces and flagstone floors.

The gardens include three terraces, an orchard, croquet lawn, vegetable plot and summer house.

Planning permission is in place for a kitchen/dining room, study, drawing room, library, sitting room, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Actor and writer Robert de Newby, who has appeared in EastEnders and the television film Diana: A Tribute To The People’s Princess, bought the property in 2009.

He said: “It is first mentioned in Pevsner’s Architectural Guide to Oxfordshire as ‘early Victorian cottages in the Tudor style’ and appeared on an Ordnance Survey map from 1881.

“In its report for Grade-II listing, English Heritage described it as ‘a beautiful place’ and ‘a cut above’ and as ‘giving the impression of a mini manor house’.

“We obtained permission for an extension to create a large kitchen/breakfast room, to knock through some interior walls and combine two of the six bedrooms to make one large master.

“Unfortunately, due to family circumstances, we are unable to go ahead, which is why we are selling.

“But this is an ideal chance for someone else to model the place exactly the way they want it.”

Swinbrook Place has a guide price of £1.65m. For more information, contact agents Butler Sherborn on 01993 822325 or visit butlersherborn.co.uk