5 bedroom house
Bramling, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1NA
Guide Price
£6,200,000
Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Grade II, Oast House
Property Tags: Cold Stores, Grain Storage, Traditional Buildings, Walled Garden
Land Tags: Arable Land, Overage / Clawback, Pasture Land, Woodland
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Aug 2021
- Removed: Date Not Available
- Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Grade II, Oast House
- Property Tags: Cold Stores, Grain Storage, Traditional Buildings, Walled Garden
- Land Tags: Arable Land, Overage / Clawback, Pasture Land, Woodland
Versatile arable farm in the east of Kent with significant development opportunities
Description
LOT 1 BRAMLING COURT FARMHOUSE AND BARN - 1.29 acres (0.52 hectares)
Bramling Court Farmhouse is approached off Bramling Road with a gravelled parking area to the north of the house. A side gate leads up a path to the rear entrance to the property whilst the front door is located on the eastern
elevation.
The front door of Bramling Court Farmhouse opens into the entrance hall off which the drawing room and dining room radiate. Through the dining room is the study with views over the garden towards the farm buildings. The dining room also leads through to the kitchen and onto the utility room, pantry and downstairs WC. The utility room provides access to the walled garden and this door is used as the principal access on a day to day basis. There are two cellars within the property, off the kitchen and dining room respectively. The staircase to the first floor is in the rear hallway off the dining room and leads up to four bedrooms and a family bathroom on the first floor. Further stairs lead to the second floor where there is a further bedroom and separate store room.
Outside there is a large timber framed storage barn which may lend itself to a range of alternative uses, subject to planning.
The gardens surround the house with a large former orchard to the south. There is also a disused swimming pool and summer house adjacent to the southern elevation.
LOT 2 BRAMLING COURT FARM BUILDINGS AND COTTAGES – 11.78 acres (4.77 hectares)
FARM BUILDINGS
The farm buildings at Bramling Court Farm are extensive and situated on a large steading which as a combination offer significant potential for alternative uses or development, subject to the necessary consents.
The buildings include several grain stores, machinery stores, former potato store and a number of other ancillary buildings currently being utilised as storage.
The layout of the buildings is identified in the block plan and can be summarised as:
1. Shoot school - 149m2 - A range of traditional brick built calf sheds under a tiled roof which were previously leased to a shooting school.
2. Garage - A modern corrugated metal three bay car garage.
3. Combine shed – 199 m2- A modern concrete framed portal farm building which is currently used as a farm workshop.
4. Grain store – 189m2 - A steel portal framed building used by the current tenant as grain storage.
5. Grain drier – 148m2- A corrugated metal clad farm building which again is used as grain storage.
6. Oast/cart shed - A two storey former granary and cart shed of brick construction that also contains the farm chemical store.
7. Cow shed – 394 m2 - A disused livestock building which is currently vacant with attached bull pens.
8. Grain store - 572m2 - A concrete portal framed building currently used for on floor grain storage. There are two passages with a central grain barrier.
9. The Potato store - Currently used for farm storage.
10. The Byre - A traditional building, currently used as general storage but has planning potential, subject to the necessary consents.
11. Piggery - Currently used as a general store.
12. There is a Pemberton Elite mobile home in the farmyard.
COTTAGES
There are 3 semi-detached cottages fronting onto Wingham Well Lane, comprising a pair of semi-detached cottages and one half of a pair. All properties benefit from views to the south over the pasture land and farm buildings.
The farm buildings, the surrounding land within Lot 2 and Field 4954 will be subject to an overage of 30% for 40 years.
LOT 3 - BRAMLING COURT FARM – 501.84 acres (203.10 hectares)
In total the land within Lot 3 at Bramling Court Farm extends to 501.84 acres (203.10 hectares) acres and is essentially divided into three parcels by a minor public roads. The fields are of a commercial nature and size suitable for modern arable farming techniques. The land is classified as grade 1 and 2 on the Agricultural Land Classification Plan for England and Wales with the soils comprising a mixture of shallow lime rich soils over flinty deep clay soils. The land has been sympathetically farmed by the current tenant with a 3 year arable rotation of predominantly autumn and spring sown cereals, with occasional oilseed rape and beans. A cropping schedule is available from the selling agents.
Changes in approaches to farming and the direction of grant support mean that UK Agriculture now has a diverse range of options open to it. The farm could be suitable for re-wilding, vine growing, or forestry, to name but three and these could sit alongside its established arable operation.
The acreages for Lot 3 are broken down as follows:
• 489.98 acres (198.295 hectares) of predominantly arable land with a small area of pasture land
• 9.63 acres (3.90 hectares) of woodland
• 2.23 acres (0.905 hectares) of tracks etc
Acreage: 514 Acres
Marketed by: Savills, Country Houses
Description
LOT 1 BRAMLING COURT FARMHOUSE AND BARN - 1.29 acres (0.52 hectares)
Bramling Court Farmhouse is approached off Bramling Road with a gravelled parking area to the north of the house. A side gate leads up a path to the rear entrance to the property whilst the front door is located on the eastern
elevation.
The front door of Bramling Court Farmhouse opens into the entrance hall off which the drawing room and dining room radiate. Through the dining room is the study with views over the garden towards the farm buildings. The dining room also leads through to the kitchen and onto the utility room, pantry and downstairs WC. The utility room provides access to the walled garden and this door is used as the principal access on a day to day basis. There are two cellars within the property, off the kitchen and dining room respectively. The staircase to the first floor is in the rear hallway off the dining room and leads up to four bedrooms and a family bathroom on the first floor. Further stairs lead to the second floor where there is a further bedroom and separate store room.
Outside there is a large timber framed storage barn which may lend itself to a range of alternative uses, subject to planning.
The gardens surround the house with a large former orchard to the south. There is also a disused swimming pool and summer house adjacent to the southern elevation.
LOT 2 BRAMLING COURT FARM BUILDINGS AND COTTAGES – 11.78 acres (4.77 hectares)
FARM BUILDINGS
The farm buildings at Bramling Court Farm are extensive and situated on a large steading which as a combination offer significant potential for alternative uses or development, subject to the necessary consents.
The buildings include several grain stores, machinery stores, former potato store and a number of other ancillary buildings currently being utilised as storage.
The layout of the buildings is identified in the block plan and can be summarised as:
1. Shoot school - 149m2 - A range of traditional brick built calf sheds under a tiled roof which were previously leased to a shooting school.
2. Garage - A modern corrugated metal three bay car garage.
3. Combine shed – 199 m2- A modern concrete framed portal farm building which is currently used as a farm workshop.
4. Grain store – 189m2 - A steel portal framed building used by the current tenant as grain storage.
5. Grain drier – 148m2- A corrugated metal clad farm building which again is used as grain storage.
6. Oast/cart shed - A two storey former granary and cart shed of brick construction that also contains the farm chemical store.
7. Cow shed – 394 m2 - A disused livestock building which is currently vacant with attached bull pens.
8. Grain store - 572m2 - A concrete portal framed building currently used for on floor grain storage. There are two passages with a central grain barrier.
9. The Potato store - Currently used for farm storage.
10. The Byre - A traditional building, currently used as general storage but has planning potential, subject to the necessary consents.
11. Piggery - Currently used as a general store.
12. There is a Pemberton Elite mobile home in the farmyard.
COTTAGES
There are 3 semi-detached cottages fronting onto Wingham Well Lane, comprising a pair of semi-detached cottages and one half of a pair. All properties benefit from views to the south over the pasture land and farm buildings.
The farm buildings, the surrounding land within Lot 2 and Field 4954 will be subject to an overage of 30% for 40 years.
LOT 3 - BRAMLING COURT FARM – 501.84 acres (203.10 hectares)
In total the land within Lot 3 at Bramling Court Farm extends to 501.84 acres (203.10 hectares) acres and is essentially divided into three parcels by a minor public roads. The fields are of a commercial nature and size suitable for modern arable farming techniques. The land is classified as grade 1 and 2 on the Agricultural Land Classification Plan for England and Wales with the soils comprising a mixture of shallow lime rich soils over flinty deep clay soils. The land has been sympathetically farmed by the current tenant with a 3 year arable rotation of predominantly autumn and spring sown cereals, with occasional oilseed rape and beans. A cropping schedule is available from the selling agents.
Changes in approaches to farming and the direction of grant support mean that UK Agriculture now has a diverse range of options open to it. The farm could be suitable for re-wilding, vine growing, or forestry, to name but three and these could sit alongside its established arable operation.
The acreages for Lot 3 are broken down as follows:
• 489.98 acres (198.295 hectares) of predominantly arable land with a small area of pasture land
• 9.63 acres (3.90 hectares) of woodland
• 2.23 acres (0.905 hectares) of tracks etc
Acreage: 514 Acres
Marketed by: Savills, Country Houses
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.