SOLD - Westend Town Farm, Marshfield, South Gloucestershire, SN14 8JH
Bath – 8 miles, Chippenham – 10 miles, M4 J18 – 5.6 miles (Driving distances are approximate)
Lot 1 – Grade II Listed farmhouse, farm buildings and a further 29.76 acres
Westend Town Farm is situated in a quiet, rural position, in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The farm lies a few miles south of the M4 and just to the north of Marshfield, which provides access to local services. The hamlet of Westend is accessed via a no-through road, making it a peaceful position for the handful of properties located there.
Westend Town Farm is a mixed arable and pasture farm benefitting from scenic views across the surrounding countryside. It extends to approximately 130.58 acres in total, comprising a substantial five bedroom period farmhouse, a large range of farm buildings, rolling permanent pasture and level arable land.
The property would suit either a ‘lifestyle’ purchaser or a commercial farmer. Subject to the appropriate consents, the farm buildings could be used for alternative purposes and Lots 4 & 5 could be used as pony paddocks.
The farm has been run as a dairy unit by the Miflin family since the early 1960s. It would make an excellent family home with buildings and land.
LOT 1 – Westend Town Farm
Lot 1 comprises Westend Town Farmhouse, over 45,000 sqft of farm buildings, 15.16 acres of permanent pasture and 10.40 acres of temporary grass.
The farmhouse is a south facing Grade II Listed property, dating back to the 17th Century with some later additions. It extends to approximately 293 sqm. The elevations are rendered on the front and of Cotswold stone on the rear, under a Cotswold stone tiled roof. It is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition.
The farmhouse looks over rolling hills to the south and is comfortable and well-presented whilst providing an opportunity for updating. It is double glazed and the principal accommodation comprises:
Ground Floor – The principal door opens into a hallway leading to the living room, dining room and kitchen. The kitchen leads onto the study and in turn to the office, as well as to a large utility room and shower / WC. The staircase rises from the hallway and leads to the first floor.
First Floor – From the first floor landing, you can access one single and four double bedrooms, a family bathroom and a shower room.
Externally the farmhouse has a well-maintained garden to the front and east elevations with lawns, flowers and a vegetable area. The farmhouse also has a range of outbuildings to the rear which, subject to the appropriate consents, could enable the expansion of the farmhouse. Parking is to the west of the farmhouse, with a two-bay barn and external concrete area.
The farm buildings have three access points from the road and have recently been used to house a dairy herd. They are, subject to the appropriate consents, suitable for a range of alternative uses. As well as concreted yards and a range of water troughs at various points, the buildings annotated on the plan comprise:
- Calf Housing – enclosed traditional stone construction – 139m².
- Storage Barn – steel portal frame mono-pitch building, open on two sides – 60m².
- General Purpose Building – enclosed steel portal frame building including the remains of a Grade II Listed stone granary – 376m².
- Dairy Parlour with Extension and Lean-to – steel portal frame building housing a 16:16 Herringbone parlour with associated pump room – 192m². With adjoining open-sided lean-to - 15m².
- Cattle Handling Building – enclosed steel portal frame building – 324m².
- Cubicle Housing – enclosed steel portal frame building with 108 cow cubicles and a central feed passage - 988m².
- Open Grass Silage Clamp – timber sleeper constructed bunker silo, capacity 650 tonnes grass silage.
- Covered Silage Clamp with Lean-to – steel portal frame building covering a bunker silo, capacity 650 tonnes grass silage.
- Cow Kennels – 47 covered timber cow kennels.
- Cattle Housing – steel portal frame livestock building with overhanging eaves and an open fronted feed passage – 341m².
- General Storage – open sided steel portal frame building – 439m².
- Open Maize Silage Clamp – bunker silo, capacity 630 tonnes maize silage. Concrete panels & sleeper construction.
- Cattle Housing – steel portal frame livestock building with an open fronted feed passage – 501m².
- Timber Frame General Store – timber pole barn – 192m².
- Isolation House – steel portal frame building – 100m².
- Hay Store – traditional Dutch barn - 65m².
- Slurry Store – open concrete slurry store with an approximate capacity of 1500m³.
- Dirty Water Store – underground tank, with an approximate capacity of 12,000 litres.
- Borehole – concrete block building housing the borehole equipment that supplies the farm.
Lot 1 - Farmland
Lot 1 farmland comprises three fields extending to approximately 26.38 acres (10.68 hectares) hatched light blue on the sale plan. Front field comprises a level field of temporary grass, classified as Grade 3 and described as being shallow lime-rich soils over chalk or limestone. St Pancras and Steppe comprise two fields of permanent pasture which slope towards Broadmead Brook to the north. They are described as being lime-rich loamy and clayey soils with impeded drainage.
Access to the farmland is obtained from two gateways off Bonds Lane into Front Field and St Pancras and through the farmyard. The boundaries consist of dry stone walls, mature trees and hedgerows and stock proof fencing with the land used for the grazing of cattle for many years.
Viewing: Viewing is strictly by prior appointment. Please contact Pippa Wildern or Mark Webb at WebbPaton LLP on 01793 842055
pwildern@webbpaton.co.uk mark@webbpaton.co.uk
