First look at 47 new homes up for sale in historic Oxfordshire village

The 47-home Temple Gate estate in Marcham is being built by Pye Homes and features a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced properties.

Once completed the development will include 47 properties; 12 will be affordable homes, four will be available via the shared ownership scheme and the remaining 31 will be for private sale.

READ MORE: Oxfordshire's MOST expensive property for sale

Pye Homes’ Managing Director, Graham Flint, said: “We are delighted to be making the first of the new homes at Temple Gate available to buy.

The development has a mix of affordable, shared ownership and privately owned homes. Picture: Pye Homes

“This is our second new community at Marcham, following our previous development at Willow Farm, and we’re anticipating similarly high levels of interest.”

In October, Mr Flint said Pye Homes are working with a “wide range of local businesses” on the development, as well as continuing its “ongoing 50-year partnership with Oxford-based Minoli Tiles”.

The name Temple Gate was inspired by the archaeological discovery of a 1,600-year-old Romano-British temple nearby.

47 new homes have been built at the Temple Gate development. Picture: Pye Homes

In a further nod to the past, each of the house types has been named after people associated with the temple’s excavation.

As part of its commitment create new habitats and enhance the site’s existing biodiversity, Pye Homes is planting a range of native tree species and hedgerows, creating areas of wildflowers and installing bat and bird boxes, insect houses and underground chambers for reptiles and amphibians.

-

Read more from this author

This story was written by Sophie Perry. She joined the team in 2021 as a digital reporter.

You can get in touch with her by emailing: sophie.perry@newsquest.co.uk

Follow her on Twitter @itssophieperry

A message from our Editor

Thank you for reading this story and supporting the Oxford Mail.

If you like what we do please consider getting a subscription for the Oxford Mail and in return we’ll give you unrestricted access with less adverts across our website from the latest news, investigations, features, and sport.

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok for more. 

You can also join the conversation in our Facebook groups: stay ahead of traffic alerts here, keep up to date with the latest from court here, share your favourite memories of Oxford here, get your daily dose of celebrity news here and take some time out with news that will make you smile. 

If you’ve got a story for our reporters, send us your news here. You can also list an event for free here.