1 bedroom house
West Hougham, Dover, Kent, CT15 7AT
Guide Price
£375,000
Residential Tags: Occupancy Condition
Property Tags: Sale By Auction, Smallholding
Land Tags: Paddock, Pasture Land, Woodland
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Aug 2021
- Removed: Date Not Available
- Residential Tags: Occupancy Condition
- Property Tags: Sale By Auction, Smallholding
- Land Tags: Paddock, Pasture Land, Woodland
This is a fantastic opportunity to buy a small grass farm at an affordable price - James Hickman, Farms, Land & Rural Property.
#TheGardenOfEngland
A small farm or agricultural smallholding located just outside West Hougham about 3.6 miles to the west of Dover.
The property is offered for sale as a whole or in 2 lots and comprises a mobile home with permanent planning consent that is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition (AOC), a group of farm buildings and pasture land all within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
In all about 26.65 acres (Red & Blue on the plan)
Guide Price £375,000 to £425,000
Method of Sale
The properties are offered for sale either as a whole or as individual lots by Private Treaty with offers invited. However, if there are competing offers then the sellers reserve the right to ask for ‘Best & Final Offers’ or take the property to auction.
Lot 1 – Castle View Farm (Red on plan)
This lot comprises the mobile home dwelling, the farm buildings and part of the farmland and extends to about 7.85 acres. There is a hard trackway off Lowslip Hill which runs around the edge of the property giving access to the farm buildings and then the mobile home.
Mobile Home
A single bedroom unit with a sitting room, kitchen, and bathroom, to the side of which is an additional lean to which has been added at a later date. The mobile home is not in good condition and requires replacement with a new unit. (Internal viewing is not advised because the floor is unsafe)
Farm Buildings
These comprise:
1. A ‘U’ shaped range of mainly block and timber buildings which are now fairly dilapidated but provide a useful footprint for replacement.
2. Cattle Shed about 44’ x 28’10” of part pole barn construction with some block walling and corrugated iron.
3. Further Building divided into stables/stores, mainly timber with steel and wood cladding under a corrugated iron roof.
4. Hay Barn about 31’ x 25’7” of pole barn construction under a corrugated iron roof and mainly clad.
5. The Goat House – this lies away from the main group of buildings close to Lowslip Hill and has been built in the style of a small bungalow with rendered elevations under a tiled roof and with window and door openings.
6. 2 further mobile homes used for storage.
Land
The land is principally level but to the south east of the property is a smaller paddock area which is on the escarpment of the valley below, this has the remains of an old field shelter.
Hay has not been made this year but the land could easily be topped and used again for grazing or haymaking. All the land is extremely well fenced with good quality livestock netting and barbed wire fencing.
Lot 2 –Castle View Land (Blue on plan)
This parcel of land is located on the opposite side of Lowslip Hill and comprises a single parcel of grazing land of about 18.80 acres. There is an access gate directly off the lane and the land has some level land along the northern side which then slopes down towards the road. The land is generally well fenced with livestock fencing. In the past it has been grazed but this year it remains untended so now requires topping etc.
Planning
Planning Consent was granted on 21st May 1990 for the mobile home by the Secretary of State for the Environment on appeal under Planning Reference: STD881545. Planning Condition no. 2 of this planning consent stated that:
“The occupation of the mobile home shall be limited to a person solely or mainly employed, or last employed, in the locality in agriculture, as defined in Section 290 of The Town and Country Planning Act 1971, or in forestry, or a dependant of such a person is residing with him or her, or a widow or widower of such a person”.
In the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 agriculture is defined as:
“Agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing from seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land, (the use of land of grazing land, meadow land, ozier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of the land for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes, and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly.
Planning Authority/ Designations
All planning enquiries relating to the property must be directed to the planning department at Dover District Council (dover.gov.uk).
Castle View farm is within the Kent North Downs AONB.
Services
Lot 1 - Mains water & electricity. Private drainage system to the mobile home.
Lot 2 - Water is connected but this is a private supply from Lot 1. If this land is sold separately from Lot 1 then the buyer will be required to make a new connection to the water main.
Our Ref: AEA210044
Marketed by: Hobbs Parker, Ashford
#TheGardenOfEngland
A small farm or agricultural smallholding located just outside West Hougham about 3.6 miles to the west of Dover.
The property is offered for sale as a whole or in 2 lots and comprises a mobile home with permanent planning consent that is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition (AOC), a group of farm buildings and pasture land all within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
In all about 26.65 acres (Red & Blue on the plan)
Guide Price £375,000 to £425,000
Method of Sale
The properties are offered for sale either as a whole or as individual lots by Private Treaty with offers invited. However, if there are competing offers then the sellers reserve the right to ask for ‘Best & Final Offers’ or take the property to auction.
Lot 1 – Castle View Farm (Red on plan)
This lot comprises the mobile home dwelling, the farm buildings and part of the farmland and extends to about 7.85 acres. There is a hard trackway off Lowslip Hill which runs around the edge of the property giving access to the farm buildings and then the mobile home.
Mobile Home
A single bedroom unit with a sitting room, kitchen, and bathroom, to the side of which is an additional lean to which has been added at a later date. The mobile home is not in good condition and requires replacement with a new unit. (Internal viewing is not advised because the floor is unsafe)
Farm Buildings
These comprise:
1. A ‘U’ shaped range of mainly block and timber buildings which are now fairly dilapidated but provide a useful footprint for replacement.
2. Cattle Shed about 44’ x 28’10” of part pole barn construction with some block walling and corrugated iron.
3. Further Building divided into stables/stores, mainly timber with steel and wood cladding under a corrugated iron roof.
4. Hay Barn about 31’ x 25’7” of pole barn construction under a corrugated iron roof and mainly clad.
5. The Goat House – this lies away from the main group of buildings close to Lowslip Hill and has been built in the style of a small bungalow with rendered elevations under a tiled roof and with window and door openings.
6. 2 further mobile homes used for storage.
Land
The land is principally level but to the south east of the property is a smaller paddock area which is on the escarpment of the valley below, this has the remains of an old field shelter.
Hay has not been made this year but the land could easily be topped and used again for grazing or haymaking. All the land is extremely well fenced with good quality livestock netting and barbed wire fencing.
Lot 2 –Castle View Land (Blue on plan)
This parcel of land is located on the opposite side of Lowslip Hill and comprises a single parcel of grazing land of about 18.80 acres. There is an access gate directly off the lane and the land has some level land along the northern side which then slopes down towards the road. The land is generally well fenced with livestock fencing. In the past it has been grazed but this year it remains untended so now requires topping etc.
Planning
Planning Consent was granted on 21st May 1990 for the mobile home by the Secretary of State for the Environment on appeal under Planning Reference: STD881545. Planning Condition no. 2 of this planning consent stated that:
“The occupation of the mobile home shall be limited to a person solely or mainly employed, or last employed, in the locality in agriculture, as defined in Section 290 of The Town and Country Planning Act 1971, or in forestry, or a dependant of such a person is residing with him or her, or a widow or widower of such a person”.
In the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 agriculture is defined as:
“Agriculture” includes horticulture, fruit growing from seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land, (the use of land of grazing land, meadow land, ozier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of the land for woodland where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes, and “agricultural” shall be construed accordingly.
Planning Authority/ Designations
All planning enquiries relating to the property must be directed to the planning department at Dover District Council (dover.gov.uk).
Castle View farm is within the Kent North Downs AONB.
Services
Lot 1 - Mains water & electricity. Private drainage system to the mobile home.
Lot 2 - Water is connected but this is a private supply from Lot 1. If this land is sold separately from Lot 1 then the buyer will be required to make a new connection to the water main.
Our Ref: AEA210044
Marketed by: Hobbs Parker, Ashford
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.