An excellent stock farm extending in total to 197.24 acres (79.82ha) located in the Eden Valley.
The property benefits from a three bedroom farmhouse which is in need of modernisation. A detached bungalow offering three bedrooms with a one bedroom self contained annex suitable for “Granny Flat Accommodation”. The Bungalow is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Clause.
There is an extensive range of traditional and more modern outbuildings offering loose housing crop and general storage space.
The majority of the excellent quality land is laid within a ringfence around the steading with 64.39 acres located on the other side of the public highway.
Location
The property is located on the outskirts of the village of Blencarn. Penrith lies 9 miles to the West and the property has good access to the A66.
Directions
From Junction 40 of the M6 take the A66 heading East. At Kemplay Bank roundabout take the third exit and continue on the A66 for 3.5 miles, then turn left onto the B6412 signposted Culgaith/Temple Sowerby/Cliburn. At the T junction turn right signposted Culgaith/Temple Sowerby. After 0.6 miles turn right to stay on the B6412 signposted Culgaith. Continue on this road into Culgaith, at the Cross Monument turn right signposted Skirwith/Melmerby and continue for 0.8 miles then turn right signposted Newbiggin then take the first road on your left signposted Blencarn, Howrigg Farm is the first farm on your right hand side.
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Services
The property benefits from mains water and electricity. Domestic drainage for the residential properties is to separate septic tanks.
Please note no formal investigation has been carried out as to the operation of the sewerage system and septic tanks, these may not meet the current General Binding Rules 2020 and the property is being sold on this basis. All parties must ensure that their lenders are aware of this before submitting an offer.
EPC
Howrigg Farmhouse has a rating of Band G.
Meadow Bank has a rating of Band H
Outbuildings
Store
3.10m x 1.85m. Stone built with slate roof covering, cobbled floor, attached to the house.
Double Garage/Workshop
7.35m x 5.88m. Block built with corrugated iron roof covering, concrete floor, electric light and power, two sliding metal doors.
Storage Container
2.32m x 6.65m.
Boythorpe Grain Silo
Loose Box
4.30m x 3.91m. Stone built with slate roof covering and concrete floor.
Wash House
3.80m x 3.10m. Stone built with slate roof covering and concrete floor.
Feed Store
5.30m x 8.10m. Block built with corrugated iron roof covering, electric fuses, sliding metal door.
Lean-To Loose Housing
4.85m x 10.20m. Block walls with corrugated iron roof covering boarded internally, block and clay tile trough, swing metal gate.
Stables
2.78 x 3.14m, 3.10m x 3.14m and 3.10m x 3.14m. Stone built with slate roof covering, all lofted above, concrete and cobbled floors, timber doors.
Loose Housing
14.80m x 13.75m. Steel portal frame with blockwork and stone walls, asbestos cement roof covering, concrete floors, central feed passage with doors to either end, mains water, metal swing doors to loose housing areas.
Stone Barn
14.95m x 5.75m. Traditional stone barn with slate roof covering, flagged floor, timber doors to front and rear elevations.
Loose Box
5.75m x 4.20m Stone built with slate roof covering, cobbled floor, with three former stalls, the lofted area above is accessed from the Stone Barn.
Pole Barn & Lean-To
11.26m x 27.75m Steel portal and timber frame with corrugated iron cladding, earth floor.
Lean-To Store
9.47m x 4.35m. Timber frame with corrugated iron cladding and concrete floor.
Former Byre
5.85m x 3.85m. Stone built with corrugated iron roof covering, concrete floor.
Loose Housing
18.05m x 26.25m. Four bay steel portal frame with blockwork walls, central feed passage with doors to either end, asbestos cement roof covering, mains water.
Rear Concrete Collecting Yard.
Roofed Over Yard
12.16 x 26.50m. Six bay steel portal frame with Yorkshire Boarding, concrete floor.
Silage Pit/Crop Store
27.43m x 13.72m Steel portal frame with cement fibre roof covering, rendered block walls with corrugated iron cladding above, concrete floor.
External Sheep Pen
With footbath.
The Land
The land extends in total to 195.63 acres (79.17ha) of excellent quality mowing and grazing land with the benefit of mains water.
Access is gained via tracks or from field to field.
Boundaries are a mixture of stone walls and post and wire fences.
Nitrate Vulnerable Zone
Part of the land is located within a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone.
Basic Payment Scheme
The delinked payments under the Basic Payment Scheme are to be retained by the Seller. As such the Buyer will need to abide by the rules of cross compliance and will indemnify the Sellers for any breaches.
Environmental Schemes
The land is not entered into any Environmental Schemes.
Fell Rights
The sale includes the follow rights on Blencarn Fell Common, CL323:
Entry No 10: The right to graze 100 ewes and followers and 40 hoggs on Blencarn Fell, comprising the whole of the land in this register unit, also extending over land south of ABCD in CL127, Kirkland Fell
Entry No 11: The right to graze 60 ewes and followers and 20 hoggs on Blencarn Fell, comprising the whole of the land in this register unit, also extending over land south of ABCD in CL127, Kirkland Fell.