Large single room available from the 1st July to 31st August, in a friendly, quiet, shared, spacious house, with a beautiful garden. The lodger could do some gardening, and do some cleaning, for up to 10 hours per week in lieu of rent. The house is already well maintained rained and clean, therefore the help would mainly be gardening.
The other lodgers are professionals and academics working in 9 to 5 jobs, and work from home for some of the week. The house is well maintained and tidy.
The single room has recently been decorated and has a nice view . The bedoom is spacious, and has a large desk, a comfortable single bed with a good mattress, a clothes rail, chest of drawers, and two bookshelves. There is an ensuite thermastatic shower. There is a separate good size WC/toilet and basin near bedroom, and another WC/toilet near the kitchen.
There is a sitting room with comfortable sofas, which adjoins the kitchen / diner and a large, well equipped kitchen. The kitchen has a washing machine and a new range stove, with a 5 ring gas hob, and 3 electric ovens and a microwave The sitting room has a TV, dvd, DAB /smart radio, and opens onto the garden which is south west facing , and has an outdoor table and chairs. The garden is big and has beautiful views, and nice trees and plants.
I clean the shared areas. The house has a gas central heating combi boiler, and is double glazed and draft proofed. The rooms offered include all bills: fast, reliable Virgin broadband Virgin media TV, gas central heating, electricity, water rates, council tax and there is a TV licence. The house is non-smoking.
Iffley has a nice community shop, which you can collect and send parcels from, and has food, and other household essentials, and there two pubs, a village hall which has film nights, music concerts, talks, yoga, pilates and other classes. It is a short walk from the house to the river Thames. It is possible to walk or cycle to the city centre along the Thames path, or go down river to the countryside. The bus stop on the ffley road is 7 minutes walk, and there are frequent number 3 buses to the city centre and Oxford science parks and Harwell. There are Sainsburys, Tesco and Co op supermarkets nearby in Cowley and Rose hill, and the Cowley shopping centre is nearby.
