5 bedroom house
Beenham, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 5NX
Guide Price
£2,000,000
Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Grade II
Property Tags: Development Potential, Equestrian, Traditional Buildings
Land Tags: Overage / Clawback, Paddock, Pasture Land
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Sep 2020
- Removed: Date Not Available
- Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Grade II
- Property Tags: Development Potential, Equestrian, Traditional Buildings
- Land Tags: Overage / Clawback, Paddock, Pasture Land
Approached via private tree lined driveway Awberry Farm offers a desirable ring fenced residential farm with outstanding views. Comprising a Grade II listed farmhouse there is a traditional courtyard of buildings converted to workshops, traditional oak framed barn and adjacent portal framed agricultural building. The land is located in well-established enclosures of pasture with mature trees and hedges. For sale by private treaty as a whole. In all about 78.56 acres (31.80 ha). FARMHOUSE Awberry Farmhouse is a two storey Grade II listed period dwelling sited adjacent to the traditional building courtyard with a mature and well-kept garden surrounding it. The property is brick built with timber frame and wooden cladding to the rear. It extends to in excess of 2,200 sq ft over three floors. Providing a light and spacious living space with many rooms benefitting from a duel aspect. The handsome property retains a great deal of charm and character and comprises a 2 storey entrance hall, dining room, sitting room, kitchen, pantry and utility room on ground floor with 3 bedrooms and 2 en-suite bathrooms to the first floor and 2 further loft rooms. The property is in need of modernisation or sympathetic redevelopment to bring it up to current standards. GARDENS AND GROUNDS Surrounding the farmhouse there is an enclosed garden with lawns and herbaceous borders together with mature trees and hedges to some boundaries. To the north of the house is a former orchard which allows scope for landscaping and extension of the garden as well as making use of the exceptional views. To the north east of the garden and adjacent to the house is a portal framed workshop with block internal walls and brick outer. Complete with concrete floor and roller shutter door there is an inspection pit and internal forge. TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS Immediately west of the farmhouse is a courtyard of single storey traditional buildings extending to about 1,800 sq.ft. Former stables and stores these are now mainly used as metal working workshops and associated facilities. To the westerly edge of the courtyard is an oak framed tithe barn extending to about 1,500 sq.ft which has been sympathetically refurbished in more recent years. AGRICTULTURAL BUILDING A portal framed building with concrete block sides and concrete floor lies to the west of the farmyard and provides about 3,500 sq.ft of accommodation. Partially clad it is used for storage at present but could be suitable for redevelopment to provide internal stabling. LAND Providing a ring fence of pasture in a mature setting the land is generally enclosed and subdivided by mature hedges and wooded belts and after the farmhouse slopes down to the River Bourne providing a superb view north. Extending to about 77.12 acres (31.22 ha) in all and located in larger parcels it is currently occupied for mowing on an annual basis but would easily be subdivided with fencing to form smaller paddocks if needed. Separate access points are available to the land from Bourne Lane to the west and Back Lane to the south east. TENURE & POSESSION Awberry Farm is offered for sale freehold and subject to the following possessions: Farmhouse, Garden and Grounds – Completion Agricultural Land – latest 29/09/2021 Workshops – latest 31/03/2022 Tithe Barn and Agricultural Barn – Completion Further details on request. OVERAGE The land hatched grey on the plan is sold subject to an overage reserving 30% of any increase in value should that part of the property gain planning permission for development other than non-residential equestrian and agricultural purposes for 30 years after the sale.
Marketed by: Carter Jonas , Newbury
Marketed by: Carter Jonas , Newbury
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.