Wide choice of smaller farms for sale

Buyers looking for a farm smaller than 200 acres have plenty of choice across several counties.

Styche Farm at Moreton Say near Market Drayton, Shropshire, is a former dairy unit now run mainly as an arable holding. In a ring fence and with extensive traditional and modern buildings, its 17th-century farmhouse has been renovated although the work is not completed.

The traditional brick farm buildings previously had planning permission for residential conversion.

A guide price of £1.9m has been set for the 147-acre holding where the land is Grade 2 and 3 medium loam and includes a small acreage of woodland and a lake of more than two acres. (Barbers Rural 01630 692 500; Halls 01743 450 700)

A secluded mixed farm in Dorset could support arable or livestock enterprises as well as having potential for other uses. Chaffeigh Farm at Thorncombe has 135 acres and a range of buildings.

The overall guide price is £1.15m but the farm has been lotted six ways by Greenslade Taylor Hunt, starting with a bungalow, outbuildings and cattle housing for £285,000.

The 1960s bungalow has an agricultural occupancy condition and is let on an assured shorthold tenancy.

The largest lot is 44 acres with a guide price of £330,000 and includes a range of modern and traditional buildings. (Greenslade Taylor Hunt 01935 415 300)

Less than 30 miles form central London, Raans Farm near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, includes a large Grade II listed six-bedroom farmhouse with a two-bedroom annexe.

The holding has almost 200 acres of mainly arable land, chiefly on free-draining loams over clay. The overall guide price of £4.15m values the land at between £8,000/acre and £8,500/acre. An FBT runs until the end of September this year on the bulk of the farm.

Raans Farm also has two three-bedroom cottages, both subject to agricultural occupancy conditions. (Savills 01295 228 055)

Priory Farm near Thorpe Tilney, Lincolnshire, is a 180-acre arable farm with a barn conversion house and a cottage for sale as a whole or in three lots. The guide price for the whole is £2.165m.

Just north of Priory Farm, near Martin, a further 19 acres of Grade 2 land is being sold by Lincolnshire County Council. The land has grown winter wheat and vining peas for the past two years and has a guide price of £8,000/acre. (Savills 01522 508 933)

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