4 bedroom house

Versatile mixed farm.


Description

Closing date set for 12 noon on Wednesday 17th November 2021

Manor House Farm is a versatile mixed farm with farmhouse, traditional farm buildings with planning consent for development and over 170 acres of Grade 3 soils. The farm has been run by the outgoing tenants as a traditional arable and beef unit with cereal crops and grass ley rotations. The farmstead sits in the centre of the holding adjacent to a deserted medieval village and church which the ownership surrounds. The land is accessed from Church Lane and the B1263 which follows the southern boundary of the farm.

Manor House Farmhouse - Manor House farmhouse sits off the farm entrance with a separate access and parking area, the property is detached, red brick with tile roof and surrounded by gardens and an orchard. Ground floor accommodation includes porch, WC, utility, kitchen with range of fitted units, pantry, dining room and sitting room. Both the dining and sitting rooms have open fires and large windows, which make for light living spaces. First floor accommodation includes four bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property has oil fired central heating and would generally benefit from some updating and improvement, but makes for a well-proportioned family home with a pleasant elevated outlook and garden, opening to the farmland.

Traditional buildings - To the immediate west of the farmhouse is an extensive range of traditional farm buildings, brick built with pantile and fibre cement roofs, historically these have been used for stabling, grain, livestock and machinery storage. Many of the buildings are double height with mezzanines, and include some wonderful historic features, such as brick archways, enclosed courtyards and foldyards. The buildings have obvious potential for redevelopment and benefit from a live approved planning consent to redevelop into four spacious rural dwellings.

Planning consent - The traditional farm buildings benefit from a planning application (Ref. No: 20/00530/FUL) to redevelop.

‘Demolition of modern buildings at the site and the change of use of traditional agricultural buildings to facilitate the development of up to 4 no. dwellings and associated garages and gardens’.

All application details can be found on the Hambleton District Council Planning website using the reference above.

Modern farm buildings - South and west of the traditional farm buildings is an modest range of modern buildings arranged around a concrete and hardcore yard.

General purpose buildings (18.4m x 21.5m) steel frame, corrugated steel and fibre cement roof, Yorkshire boarding to the eaves, Dutch barn style open sides, block walls to part and concrete floor. Additional lean-to (7m x 13.8m), Dutch barn, steel frame with steel corrugated roof and concrete floor.

Cattle housing (21m x 45.5m) Large steel portal frame building, fibre cement roof and Yorkshire boarding, block walls, concrete floor, external feed barrier with concrete feed apron.

Cattle housing (27.9m x 10m) Atcost concrete frame building, fibre cement roof and side sheets, block walls, concrete floor, external feed barrier with concrete feed apron.

Note: some modern farm buildings will require demolition as part of the planning consent for development of four residential dwellings in the traditional farm buildings.

Land - The farmland lies in a ring fenced block surrounding the farmstead and divided by a single track public road. Many fields have direct road access to Church Lane or frontage to the B1264. The land very gently undulates but for the most part is flat at around 25-50 metres above sea level. The land is classified as Grade 3 under the MAFF Provisional Agricultural Land Classification. The soils are from the Crewe series, common to the locality and described as a clayey and fine loam, suitable for cereals and grassland. The farm has supported a typical cereal and shot term grass ley rotation in recent years. The land is bound by mature hedgerows and small wooded areas which make for a very attractive setting.

St Johns Church and Graveyard - St John’s church and churchyard sit within field 4625, forming part of a wider Scheduled Monument, being a deserted medieval village. Despite its current condition the church is not formally closed. The surrounding churchyard is closed to further burials. The Parochial Church Council, Diocese and Church Commissioners are working to formally close the church. Following closure, the Church Commissioners are required to carry out a statutory period of public consultation under the provisions of the Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 to enable the church and churchyard to be appropriated to “monument” use so that they can be conveyed to the purchaser of the land surrounding.

Location

Manor House Farm is situated close to the River Tees on the fringe of North Yorkshire. Surroundings are predominantly arable fields interspersed with attractive woodlands and shelterbelts, there is a handful of further dwellings which make up the hamlet of High Worsall, north of the farm.

The farm has excellent transport connections, being only 2.3 miles from Yarm railway station with good links to the East Coast Mainline, from which some services to London Kings Cross take less than 3 hours. The A19 trunk road (5 miles to the east) provides access to Thirsk, Middlesbrough and onwards to the A1 and York. North of the farm, Teesside International Airport is only 8 miles away.





Acreage: 173.8 Acres

Directions

Nearest Post Code - TS15 9PW


Additional Info

Rights of Way, Easements & Wayleaves - The property is sold subject to, and with the benefit of all existing wayleaves, easements and rights of way, public and private whether specifically mentioned or not. Local electricity lines, public footpaths and bridleways cross the farmland. Rights of way will be reserved for public access to the remains of St Johns Church, as marked A-B in brown.
Services - Mains electricity, mains water supply and private drainage.
Designations and Restrictions - Field 4625 is a Scheduled Monument (List Entry Number: 1019065) Medieval settlement and associated field system and post-medieval chapel, adjacent to Manor House Farm.
Subsidies & Grants - The land is registered on the Rural Land Registry and sold with the benefit of Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) Entitlements. The Entitlements are currently held by and have been claimed in 2021 by the outgoing tenants. It is intended Entitlements will be transferred to the purchaser(s) in readiness for the 2022 claim.
Sporting Rights - The sporting rights are included in the sale insofar as they are owned.
Minerals - The vendors except all mines and minerals from the sale, with surface searching and underground working powers only.
Sale Conditions - Number of residential units in the farmyard (Lot 1) is to be limited to the one existing dwelling plus conversion of the traditional buildings to a maximum of four units.
Tenure and Ingoing - The freehold of the farm is offered for sale with vacant possession, crops will be established for the 2021/2022 growing season by the outgoing tenant, the purchaser(s) will be required take over the crops at the valuation figure set by the selling agents.
VAT - VAT is payable in addition to the purchase price on the non-residential elements of the property, being the agricultural land and buildings. An apportionment of the price agreed will be made by Savills. For the avoidance of doubt, Stamp Duty Land Tax is payable on the total price of the property including VAT. All offers will be assumed to have been made on a VAT exclusive basis unless otherwise stated.
Viewing - Strictly by appointment through the selling agents Savills York.
Health and Safety - Given the potential hazards of a working farm we would ask you to be as vigilant as possible when inspecting the farm for your own personal safety, in particular around the farm buildings.

Marketed by: Savills, York