Two Victorian town houses with a number of similarities and close to the centre of Oxford are both ideal for downsizers, according to one agent.

The first, in Warwick Street in Iffley Fields, includes a number of period features such as an open fireplace and cornicing.

On the ground floor is a drawing room and a study that looks out over the garden, while the lower ground floor includes a kitchen with a triple Aga and original built-in cupboards.

This leads to a dining room/ conservatory with terracotta tiled floor and concertina doors that open on to the garden. There is also a pantry, utility room and boot store.

The first and second floors include a master bedroom suite, guest bedroom suite and one more bedroom/study and shower room.

Outside is a kitchen garden, cedar greenhouse and vegetable beds.

The other property, in Iffley Road, includes a sitting room with an open fireplace and log burner that opens to the kitchen/dining area.

The kitchen has a double Aga and flagstone floor and French doors to the garden. There is also a study which features a cast aluminium circular staircase leading to the floor below.

The lower ground level includes a family room, wet room, utility and store room.

Upstairs is a master bedroom with dressing room and ensuite bathroom plus a guest bedroom with ensuite wet room. The back garden includes a terrace and outdoor sauna.

Other touches include mood lighting, an integrated sound system, heat exchangers providing air conditioning, limed oak staircases and bespoke stained glass windows.

The house still has its original sash windows and several other period features such as original floor boards and high ceilings with period cornices.

Harriet Gascoigne-Pees, of agents Knight Frank, said: “Both of these properties are absolutely perfect for someone who wants to downsize to Oxford from London or elsewhere, or to use as a bolt-hole.

“The Warwick Road house is so beautifully presented, a buyer could just move straight in.

“It has a number of extremely attractive features such as a west-facing garden and a double-sized plot. There are bookshelves in the study and in the drawing room and so it might be a perfect house for the retired academic or the former graduate who wants to come back to Oxford and relive their student days.

“The location of this house on Iffley Road means it has superb links to Oxford city centre as well as to London, Heathrow and Gatwick, which is exactly why the current owners bought it.

“The interior has been extremely well modernised and the gardens have been landscaped to transform it into an elite home.”

Number 18 Warwick Street is on the market for £925,000 and 65 Iffley Road is priced at £895,000.

For more information about either property, or to arrange a viewing, contact Knight Frank on 01865 790077 or visit knightfrank.com