Higher Lincombe Farm

Available together or separately - The choice of 2 modern barns each with consent for conversion to separate detached dwellings dwellings [5 bedrooms Excess £425,000 & 8 bedrooms Excess of £470,000] each with sea views, close to the desirable coastal village of Lee Bay. Freehold. TENDER DATE 2/6/22

Situation And Amenities - Higher Lincombe Farm is situated in the small hamlet of Lincombe which is located above the picturesque Lee Bay. This enviable location offers easy access to the stunning North Devon Coast Line and range of famous sandy, surfing beaches at Croyde, Putsborough, Saunton (also with Championship Golf Course) and Woolacombe. There are an excellent range of coastal walks available from the doorstep. Exmoor National Park is readily accessible and is renowned for its undulating moors and pasture land with rivers and streams running through deep wooden combes to the spectacular cliffs on the coast. There are a range of amenities located at the nearby villages/towns of Braunton about 8 miles, Ilfracombe about 2 miles and Barnstaple about 14 miles. As the Regional Centre, Barnstaple houses the area’s main business, commercial, leisure and shopping venues as well as District Hospital and live theatre. At Barnstaple there is access to the North Devon Link Road which leads on, in about 45 minutes or so, to Junction 27 of the M5 Motorway and where Tiverton Parkway offers a fast train service to London Paddington in just over 2 hours. The nearest International Airports are at Bristol and Exeter.

Description - Available together or separately, Higher Lincombe Farm Barn and Lincombe Court represent an interesting and increasingly rare opportunity to acquire two structures to convert which could potentially accommodate two parts of the same family or to live in one and rent out the other. As separate lots each has their own garden curtilage and small area of paddock. As a whole the total acreage is approximately 1.38 acres, which is mainly laid to gently sloping permanent pasture.

Method Of Sale - The barns are being offered for sale by Informal Tender/Sealed Bids. The target date is noon on Wednesday 1st June 2022. Tender forms are available from the selling agents. The vendors reserve the right to consider offers prior to the due date. They also reserve the right not to accept the highest or any offer.

Higher Lincombe Farm Barn - This barn has consent, under North Devon Council planning reference 72442, for conversion to a two storey detached dwelling incorporating on the Ground Floor Entrance Hall, Cloakroom, Living/Dining Room/Kitchen, Utility Room, Master Bedroom En-suite and on the First Floor Four En-Suite Bedrooms. To the right of the existing structure there are plans to convert a bay into a Double Garage. The bay to the left of the barn is to be demolished and will therefore create a greater distance between the two barns. This consent was granted on the 25.01.21. The barn has a concrete pad and concrete strip foundations, concrete and timber framed walls, timber boards and steel cladding to the walls, the roof is corrugated metal and corrugated asbestos. Externally there is independent access from the lane, the garden curtilage is covered in the planning consent and there is additional agricultural land as shown on the drone overhead shot of the two barns, as edged in green, which is for identification purposes only on not to scale. The Promap plan accompanying these details will also show the acreage for this particular unit as being about 0.75 of an acre. The guide price for this unit is offers in excess of £425,000.

Lincombe Court - Has consent, under North Devon Council planning references 70463 (8.11.2019) and 70925 (6.2.2020) for conversion into a two storey separate detached dwelling. The barn has a concrete strip foundation, mixture of concrete frame, concrete block and timber clad, exposed concrete block and timber boarding to the walls, asbestos sheet roof and metal gate. The proposed accommodation includes on the Ground Floor Entrance Hall, Open plan Living/ Dining Room/ Kitchen, Utility Room, Snug/Office, Four Bedrooms (two En-Suite), Family Bathroom. First Floor; Landing, Four further Bedrooms (two En-Suite), Cloakroom. Externally there is ample room for Garaging and ample off road parking. There are garden areas where the former silage pit was, the residential curtilage is shown in the planning permission (there is an existing planning application in the process of being considered to increase the garden curtilage for this particular unit). The area of ground being sold with this barn is shown as being edged red on the drone shot accompanying these particulars and on the Promap plan amounts to 0.63 of an acre, all these plans are for identification purposes only and not necessarily to scale. This barn also has independent access from the lane. The guide price for this unit is offers in excess of £470,000.

Special Notes - All acreages are estimated as not all proposed boundaries are in place. The lots are therefore being sold as seen. When sales are agreed contract plans will be prepared and exact acreages confirmed. Respective purchasers will be required to fence off their purchases if the barns are sold as separate lots. The vendors intend to agree sales on both lots after the tender target date and aim for simultaneous exchange of contracts on both.

A public footpath currently divides the two barns and in effect forms the boundary between the two, it is intended that the ground that the public foot path crosses will be conveyed with Lincombe Court, the new owner of this may decide to apply to divert the footpath along the top boundary of the property instead. The vendors also own a lean two adjacent to Lincombe Manor Barn which is a neighbouring property, they are retaining pedestrian access to this and the proposed boundary between Higher Lincombe Farm Barn is shown as a painted intermittent blue line on the ground, similarly there is a intermittent blue line showing the approximate boundary between the two barns themselves.

Services - Mains electricity is already on site, mains water is also on site but separate supplies will need to be created from the mains. With regard to drainage the vendors own a holiday lodge with consent for a second lodge on land adjoining this site and where they have already installed a sewage treatment plant, they propose to offer connection of this on terms to be agreed to the new owners of Higher Lincombe Farm Barn however Lincombe Court new owners will need to install their own sewage treatment plant. Central heating to be of respective purchaser's choices. The rubble within Lincombe Court will be removed as hard core for a new track across an adjoining field to the afore mentioned lodges. The vendors intend to construct the Devon Bank boundary between land being sold with Higher Lincombe Farm Barn and the land they are retaining with their lodges, this line will follow the existing boundary line which is clear on site. There are sea views from the land areas of both barns and there may well be sea views from the structures at first floor level.

Directions - At Mullacott Cross roundabout, take the road to Woolacombe, proceed for approximately 2 miles and shortly after passing the golf driving range on your left hand side turn right sign posted towards Lee. Stay on this lane for 1½ miles and at the junction turn left towards Lee Bay the barns will be found within a short distance on the left hand side set back from the lane.



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