Only two new houses have been built at RAF High Wycombe at Walters Ash since developer Annington Homes refurbished a contingent of homes no longer needed by service families due to falling numbers of military personnel.

Newly built Nos 73a and 73b Woodcock Avenue are the last two properties in the final phase. They came on the market last weekend.

Each house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, open plan kitchen/dining room, separate lounge with French doors onto a patio, downstairs cloakroom, master bedroom with en suite shower room, a second double bedroom – the third is a single that could double as a study – and there’s also the main bathroom.

Sally Parsons, property director for Annington says there’s been a policy change towards smaller developments and many more newly built homes rather than refurbs.

In 1996 Annington bought 57,434 former married quarters from the Ministry of Defence. Most were immediately leased back to the MoD to meet demand at that time. 

Subsequently, as cuts to the MoD budget took effect, a high number of homes have been handed back to Annington to be refurbished prior to being sold on the open market or let to private sector tenants at the market rate.

Over the past 22 years 277 ex-married quarters across five sites in Bucks have become homes either to let or for sale in the private sector.

“To date we have helped over 18,000 buyers in the UK, many of them first time buyers and key workers,” says Ms Parsons.

Numbers 73a and 73b at Walters Ash are for sale through the land and new homes office of selling agent JNP in Wycombe.

The most expensive of the two, 73a at £440,000, has a large garden – almost 3,500 sq ft. 

The neighbouring house with the smaller plot, 73b, is £415,000.