Banks Farm and Hesketh Lodge Farm - Lot 1

Once a smallholding the farm has grown over many years to form what is now a large agricultural centre for all operational activities associated with the potato growing, processing and distributing businesses. The farm has a wide entrance to the A59 and includes a threebedroom farmhouse with large garden, 83,000 square foot split between several commercial scale buildings, including about 10,000 tonnes of refrigerated potato storage and 195 acres of arable land.

From the large yard laid out in front of the entrance to the farm, steel gates lead into a paved area behind Banks Farmhouse. The rear door leads into an open-plan kitchen-living area with doors to a stone patio and large garden. On the front of the house lies two reception rooms, a cloakroom, utility and study/bedroom 4. On the first floor there are three bedrooms and a family bathroom.

The house and lawns are surrounded by mature shrubs, hedgerows and trees which offer a sense of seclusion away from the road and farm buildings behind.

A wide entrance from the road gives way to a substantial concrete yard providing generous space for vehicles to turn. This yard continues around the northern side of the buildings providing plenty of room for heavy goods vehicles to manoeuvre in and around the buildings. In all the buildings extend to about 83,000 square feet, which includes about 10,000 tonnes of refrigerated storage.

The land at Banks Farm lies directly to the west of the village of Sollom, on the western side of the A59.

The land consists predominantly of loamy and clayey soil with areas of sandy loam and moss soils. It has grown a range of cereal crops, as well as potatoes and salad crops. In the centre lies a block of woodland extending to 2.93 acres amd a lake extending to 1.68 acres.

Banks Farm is the base of T E Gore & Son. This farming company is a well-known potato grower, processor and distributor in the area.

Banks Farm comprises a farmhouse, large set of buildings and land together forming the centre of the operational activities. It lies in a convenient location on the Liverpool Road (A59), about 1,200 yards south of the crossroads with the A565.

The farm is located in south west Lancashire within the northernmost section of the productive West Lancashire Coastal Plains, near Preston, the county seat.

Banks Farm is located on the A59 and is 9 miles from junction 28 of the M6 at Leyland. The West Coast Mainline has stations at Leyland (8 miles) and Preston (11 miles).

Locally, there are a range of amenities including schools, doctors, shops, cafés and pubs at Tarleton with the nearest supermarket being Booths at Hesketh Bank. The farms lie in a popular part of the county with the attractive villages of Croston, 4 miles to the east, and Rufford, located 3 miles to the south of Banks Farm. Both villages have stations on the local Ormskirk railway line and Rufford plays host to a historic Tudor Manor; Rufford Old Hall, owned by the National Trust.

Marketed by: Strutt & Parker, National Estates & Farm Agency