Aberdeenshire family farm offers good cropping

An Aberdeenshire farm that has spent nearly a century in the same family has come on the market.

Crookedneuk Farm at Longside, Peterhead, has been owned by the same family since 1926.

The 378-acre (153ha) holding is for sale as a whole or in three lots for offers over £2.125m.

The Grade 3 land is mainly cropped with winter and spring barley, winter wheat and oilseed rape. There is 74 acres of grassland and a duck pond offering good sporting opportunities.

The land holds extensive farm buildings including cattle courts, sheds and a former 16-point Trigon milking parlour, which has the potential to be recommissioned.

The main lot is Crookedneuk, which is on the market for £1.6m. It contains a 400-year old farmhouse, farm buildings, two three-bedroom semi-detached cottages and 259 acres (105ha) of land.

The second lot is 119 acres at nearby Brunthillock, which is on offer for £500,000.

The third lot, consisting of 3.17 acres at the disused Rora Quarry, is on offer for £25,000.

A large tonnage of granite from the 1.28ha disused quarry is still on site, which had been extracted for house building.

There are also two further residential properties for sale separately: a four-bedroom house, north of Crookedneuk for £225,000 and a three-bedroom house east of the farm for £175,000.

James Presly, from agent Aberdeen & Northern, said the area was regarded as one of the best agricultural areas in Aberdeenshire.

“The land at Brunthillock, in particular, is renowned as being excellent early cropping farmland.”

The farm is on the western outskirts of the village of Longside, on the northern banks of the South Ugie Water.

The city of Aberdeen is 28 miles south – around an hour by car.

Entitlements are not included in the sale, while sporting rights are in-hand for good duck shooting and brown trout fishing.

(Aberdeen & Northern 01467 623 800)