Oxford holiday apartment rental, Woodstock with walking, air con, internet access, telephone, rural retreat, TV, DVD

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Hope House Churchill Suite (apartment)

Home description

The Churchill Suite is a first floor apartment with large sitting room and dining area decorated to the highest standard in a contemporary art deco style. Master bedroom with queen sized bed, luxury bespoke bedlinen, twin bedded second bedroom and bathroom with Victorian bath, shower, wash hand basin and WC. Use of a kitchen and dining room. Each suite has been meticulously restored and magnificently furnished in a sympathetic contemporary style with all mod cons to take into account the needs of the leisure traveller and the business guest.

Accommodation is offered with a traditional locally-sourced organic Full English and Continental breakfast served in the Vanbrugh restaurant. Within 500 metres of Hope House there are fourteen eateries, ranging from gastro pubs to lively brasseries and two AA Rosette restaurants. Kitchen facilities mean that guests who take over the whole house – which would accommodate 16 - can bring their own chef.

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The Central England / Cotswolds / Oxfordshire region

Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history. For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars.

With its mix of ancient and modern, there is plenty to do, whether it’s visiting one of the many historic buildings, colleges, museums or enjoying a day along the river.

The Ashmolean Museum, established in 1683, is the oldest museum in the UK and one of the oldest in the world. It houses collections of art and antiquities, which are of national and international importance. They range from the civilisations of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to Renaissance Europe and the 20th Century. There is also an extensive Far Eastern collection

Visit Bodleian Library, the medieval divinity school, the oldest teaching and examination room of the university, a masterpiece of English Gothic architecture.

Punting is also an enjoyable and popular way to spend a summer’s day in Oxford. Cherwell Boathouse has over 70 hand built punts plus rowing boats.

Oxford / Woodstock area

The Oxfordshire Cotswolds Market Town of Woodstock is a pretty place about 10 miles north of Oxford on the A44 to Broadway and Evesham. It boasts many charming streets, inns, and tea shops. Woodstock is most famous for the close proximity to the ancestral home of the Churchill family, Blenheim Palace. Thomas Chaucer (thought to be the brother of Geoffrey Chaucer) and famous for being Speaker of the House of Commons, resided here for some years, whilst in later centuries Woodstock was noted for its glove making.

The Cotswolds is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful areas in England. With its unique stone-built heritage, gently rolling hills and broad valleys, you will find plenty of places to visit and sites to enjoy. Explore historic market towns and discover small charming villages dotted across the landscape. The Cotswolds many attractions include museums and galleries, historic houses, gardens and wildlife parks.

Set in the Cotswolds, Blenheim Palace is considered to be one of the finest baroque houses in the country. Inside the Palace can be found a superb collection of tapestries, paintings, porcelain and furniture in the magnificent State Rooms.

Sir Winston Churchill was born in the Palace in 1874 and a permanent exhibition about him is located next to his birth room. He is buried in a simple grave in the nearby church at Bladon.

Surrounding the Palace are over 2000 acres of beautiful parkland, lakes, fountains and formal gardens including the Secret Garden, the Water Terraces, Rose Garden and Grand Cascade. A miniature train, a great favourite with all ages, connects the Palace to the Pleasure Gardens where a range of fun activities for children are located including the Marlborough Maze, the Butterfly House, the Lavender Garden, Adventure Playground and Blenheim Bygones exhibition.

How to get there

Airports
London Heathrow and Gatwick airports: all terminals are linked to Oxford by The Airline coach service
www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=23
London Stansted airport is linked to Oxford by the National Express 757 coach.

Trains
Frequent direct train service operates between Oxford and London Paddington along with services from the South via Reading; from the west via Didcot or Reading and from the North via Bicester and Banbury.
www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk
Other services operate via Birmingham www.virgintrains.co.uk

Bus
Fast and frequent coach services provide a direct link between the centre of Oxford and Central London 24-hours a day.
www.oxfordtube.com
www.oxfordbus.co.uk
www.nationalexpress.com

Activities near Oxford

Facilities

Further details indoors:
The finest materials have been used throughout – Beltrami Italian linen, Mulberry tree silk hand-made duvets and pillows, under-floor heated Italian marble floored bathrooms and state-of-the-art in-room entertainment: LCD TV, Sony TV surround system, Blu-ray player, wall-mounted iPod docks, high speed wireless internet access and remote control lighting. Each suite has a work desk and a fully stocked bar, as well as a complementary personal car park space. All the suites have air-conditioning.

The Churchill Suite, with two glorious large bay windows, is located on the first floor of Hope House. The original oak panelled walls have been meticulously restored to their former glory and the four metre high ceilings, together with the 82 square metre footprint, give a very spacious feel to this suite.

Decorated in a monochromatic colour scheme, the suite is decorated with sumptuous velvets, opulent flocked wallpapers and French-style furnishings, which give the suite a feeling of glamour.

A King-size Moulin Noir sleigh bed takes centre stage in the bedroom, playing host to its surrounding contemporary interior design scheme.

The bathroom features a cast iron Victorian ‘slipper’ style’ bath, where guests can while away the hours watching the in-bathroom TV.

Further details outdoors:
Hope House was built circa 1708 for maltster Miles Parker, a local councillor and mayor of Woodstock from 1711-1715, who as Receiver General of Taxes in Oxfordshire, collected the taxes to pay for Blenheim Palace.

Constructed at the same time as Blenheim Palace, Hope House is one of two grand houses in Woodstock (the other being The Bishop’s House, Rectory Lane) designed in Vanbrughian style with baroque architecture and it is easy to understand why it has been described as a sister property to the Vanbrugh-designed Blenheim Palace. Historians debate whether it was indeed designed by Vanbrugh himself, as similarities abound: the railings to the front of Hope House and the stone in which they are set are exactly identical to the railings within the grounds at Blenheim palace around the pond and the stone used for construction is from the same source as the palace stone.

The flat roof to the property is constructed with 18mm lead, a very rare example of an original lead roof, with generations of the Money family’s footprints carved into the lead, as well as several footprints of the Churchill family.

The bay windows to the front of the house feature etchings in the glass with the names of Money’s ancestors and dates of their marriage at St. Mary Magdalene Church Woodstock. Other etchings done by Money ancestors can be seen on windows in rooms throughout the house, including three in the Blenheim suite.

Situated on the corner of Oxford Street and Hensington Road, Woodstock, the group of buildings owned by the influential Money family were collectively known as ‘Money Corner’ and appear as such in early maps of Woodstock.

The family brewed local ales at the Malt House during the 1700s and at one point they also owned the Six Bells Public House next door (now the Real Wood Furniture Company).

During the mid 1800s the Money family was at the height of its glory; the family owned and operated several of the glove making factories in Woodstock, and Elizabeth Money exhibited deer and sheepskin gloves at The Great Exhibition in London in 1851. The family’s glove business blossomed during the 19th century and they were awarded a Royal Warrant to supply Queen Victoria with leather boots, saddles and gloves. The original lead warrant, together with gloves and glove making tools can be viewed in a display at the Oxfordshire Museum in Park Street, Woodstock, a couple of hundred metres from Hope House.

The estate today comprises Hope House, whose fascia is in Oxford Street and along the corner of Hensington Road, the Malt House (1 Hensington Road), cottages 3, 5 and 7 Hensington Road which were the old workers cottages and number 9 which was originally the barn where the horse and the steam engine tractor were kept, now converted into a separate house, along with the delightful original Cotswold stone walled gardens. Julia Money sold most of Union Street in the 1980s, where the managers of the glove making business originally lived, to raise money to maintain the estate.

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	27 Oct 09	1 Jul 10	1500£ 1,500	0-	0-	1 Week

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