Multiple farms come to market in busy May for land sales

May is shaping up to be a busy month with multiple farms coming to the market, including arable holdings at scale.

Clipt Bushes and Peppers Hall Farm, near Lavenham, Suffolk, with a combined acreage of 506 acres of mostly Grade 3 land, are for sale for the first time in more than 300 years.

The land has been farmed under a conventional cereal rotation by the same contractor for 25 years.

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The holding also has pasture and woodland and two modern grain stores with capacity for 85t.

Converted farm buildings generate an annual rental income of about £28,000 from nine commercial and light industrial units.

The farm is subject to a Countryside Stewardship scheme agreement until December 2027.

An overall guide price of £5.6m has been set by Savills, although the farm is also lotted five ways.

Wiltshire arable

Grade 3 land at Deptford Farm © Symonds & Sampson

Another sizeable arable launch, 478 acres of high-yielding land set in a ring-fence, is taking place in Wiltshire’s Wylye Valley.

The Grade 3 land at Deptford Farm has lime-rich loamy soils over chalk and limestone.

It is farmed under a contract farming agreement with a neighbour in a combinable crop rotation including winter wheat, winter and spring malting barley, winter and spring oats, and oilseed rape.

Symonds & Sampson is guiding the sale at £4.75m.

Anglesey pasture farm

Tyn Llwyn farm © Carter Jonas

In Wales, Tyn Llwyn farm, a 158-acre coastal farm on Anglesey, comes with improved pasture, farm buildings and a two-bedroom farmhouse.

Hugh O’Donnell, of selling agent Carter Jonas, says that while it is farmed commercially it also has areas of biodiversity interest.

“Traditional barns offer potential for a range of alternative uses, subject to the necessary consents, alongside modern farm buildings ideal for agricultural or equestrian enterprises,” he says.

Carter Jonas is guiding Tyn Llwyn at £1.8m and is also offering it in four lots.

The same agent is launching Prys House Farm near Richmond, North Yorkshire, an upland grassland farm with 104 acres of Grade 5 land, a ghyll with a waterfall, and a Grade II listed three-bedroom farmhouse.

The guide price is £600,000 for the whole, but it can also be sold as two lots.

Dorset with vines

Muston Farm © Savills

In Dorchester, a property with a difference is coming to the market.

Muston Farm in Dorset’s Piddle Valley has 90 acres, one-third of which is planted with grapevines.

The rest of the land is pasture, water meadows and mature woodland, which Geoff Jones of selling agent Savills says provides diversification options or continued use as grazing land.

There is one agricultural building and full planning permission to build a 1,161sq m shed.

Muston Farm is on the market at £1m.

Ring-fenced pasture farm

Heatheryknowe at Longtown © H&H Land & Estates

Another ring-fenced pasture farm, 75-acre Heatheryknowe at Longtown, near Carlisle, which is currently used for stock rearing, is being marketed by H&H Land & Estates.

It comes with a range of farm buildings, a three-bedroom farmhouse, and a two-bedroom cottage.

The Grade 3 land is subject to a Sustainable Farming Incentive agreement until April 2027.

Heatheryknowe is on the market at £1.35m and is also available in two lots.

Diverse income potential

Mount Pleasant © DR Kivell Country Property

At just 47 acres, Mount Pleasant, near Lifton, Devon, is the smallest of this week’s launches, but it comes with an opportunity to generate diversified income from two barn conversions.

 In terms of its agricultural value, the land is gently sloping grassland with a small area of recently planted woodland.

As well as a shed that could be used for housing livestock or serve as a general-purpose building, there is a cattle handling pen, race and a collecting yard.

Two loose boxes and an enclosed yard leading to a paddock add to the farm’s appeal for equine use.

The principal accommodation is a four-bedroom farmhouse and there are also two barn conversions, one with two bedrooms and the other with one.

While offering the opportunity to generate income as holiday lets, selling agent Geoff Lupton, of D R Kivell Country Property, says the additional accommodation could also be a good fit for multi-generational living.

Mount Pleasant is on the market at a guide price of £1.5m.