Arable and mixed farms with development potential hit market

After poor weather delayed photographs and marketing plans for farm sales in the first four months of the year, the pace is picking up on new launches.

Carter Jonas and Cheffins are launching Cocksedge Farm, near Carlton, Newmarket. 

Described as a prime arable farm, the property comes with about 140 acres.

This ringfenced block of Grade 2 arable acreage is currently farmed under a contract agreement with a traditional cropping rotation; there is some pasture, too.

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An early-Victorian farmhouse has a modern single-storey extension as a self-contained annexe.

Cocksedge Farm is available as a whole at a guide of £2.7m, or in up to three lots.

The selling agent says one of those lots, which includes the farmhouse, farm buildings and fields of pasture land, presents a “significant opportunity” for buyers interested in establishing a smallholding or pursuing equestrian interests.

Lincolnshire offering

In Lincolnshire, Carter Jonas is also marketing Hall Marsh Farm, on the outskirts of Long Sutton. It has set a guide of £1.8m for the farm, which has 131 acres of Grade 1 arable land and a set of farm buildings.

Jamie Elbourn, senior surveyor at the firm’s Cambridge office, says its strategic location offers potential residential and commercial investment opportunities.

The farm buildings include two agricultural barns that could be converted subject to planning permission being secured.

Soils are loam and clay with the lighter soils used for growing a wide range of combinable and root crops.

One block is subject to a farm business tenancy, which expires on 31 October 2025.

It is being offered as a whole or in four lots, with two of the lots having a 15-year overage clause that requires 30% of any uplift in value on the grant of planning consent to be passed to the vendor.

Dumfries and Galloway

For buyers looking for a farm suitable for a beef and sheep enterprise and arable crop production, Dinwoodie Green Farm, near Lockerbie, is coming to the market.

The farm was purchased by the current owners in 2018.

Dinwoodie Green Farm © Savills

The farmland, covering around 319 acres and sitting in three distinct blocks, is intersected by the M74, B7076 and a railway line, but the blocks are accessible via internal tracks and over-bridges.

That land rises from 60-120m above sea level, with the majority of soils classified as Grades 3(2) and 4, according to the James Hutton Institute for Soil Research.

There is water supply to all field enclosures from either water troughs or natural sources.

The farm comes with a category C listed farmhouse, three farm cottages and a range of mostly modern farm buildings, including cubicle accommodation for about 260 head of cattle.

Selling agent Savills is seeking offers of more than £2.7m for Dinwoodie Green Farm as a whole.

Yorkshire equestrian farm

If a buyer’s interest lies in horses, Savills is also launching Hanging Hill Farm, near Malton, Yorkshire, which it describes as a “wonderful example of a well-appointed equestrian farm”.

Three timber-built stable blocks incorporate 25 stables and facilities include a covered five-horse walker, a 15m lunge pen and general storage buildings currently used as a service area, store and stock barn.

Hanging Hill Farm © Savills

A bespoke muck midden has a concrete floor, panels and effluent tank.

An additional series of timber buildings provides further general-purpose storage, garaging and workshop space.

There is a renovated detached stone farmhouse with up to four bedrooms, and also a one-bedroom annexe that is rented out as holiday accommodation.

Other accommodation includes a party lodge that is used as an entertaining space, a lakeside lodge and a summer house.

The land covers about 129 acres and is down to arable and grass.

Savills is marketing Hanging Hill Farm at £2.5m for the whole or it is available in three lots.