Location, style and space are key factors a tenant considers when choosing a property to rent. A common question often asked is: how is the property heated? Usually the answer is gas, electric, or, in some instances, oil. Now, Chancellors Headington can answer ‘wood’!
Chancellors Headington has been instructed as the lettings agent on a property with an environmentally friendly wood burning central heating system. Wood burning central heating works by fuelling a back boiler fire that is connected to central heating which heats the radiators throughout the property. The fire needs to be lit each morning and wood added to it throughout the day. No gas is required and hot water is provided from a water tank with an immersion heater. During the summer, there are additional electric oil radiators in each of the bedrooms if the tenant prefers not to have the fire lit.
Once the wood is sourced, it has to be prepared, seasoned and chopped. The landlord of this Headington property has already been through this time consuming process and has a year’s supply of wood ready and stored for the new tenant. Not only is this ready the moment the new tenant takes the keys, it is also included in the rent!
The environmental benefits were a major factor in the owner’s decision to install the wood burning system, commenting, “Perhaps there is a part of all of us that is attracted to the nice smell and homely look of a roaring wood fire and imagines what it would be like in one’s own living room….so four years ago when we were having a loft conversion, I decided this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to do something different. It was ‘out’ with the mains gas and ‘ in’ with the integrated sealed system wood burner with back boiler. It felt like a risky step into the unknown but I have never regretted the decision to put this unusual choice of renewable heating in a suburban setting.”
Jonathan Pincott, Associate Director of Chancellors Headington office, is delighted to be marketing the letting of the property and is anticipating significant interest from the busy Headington summer market. Jonathan explains “This detached, four bedroom property is located in central Headington within walking distance to Bury Knowle Park, shops and hospitals. It is a unique opportunity to live in a property within Oxford City that has a renewable primary heating system. With the property available from September it will appeal to the many academic visitors arriving in the city and families’ moving to take advantage of the excellent schools Headington has to offer.”
For further information about this property or to arrange a viewing, please contact the Lettings team at Chancellors Headington on 01865 765000. You can also view a full list of properties to rent in Headington.
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