Kennel Club to sell 7,550-acre Northumberland estate

The Kennel Club is selling its 7,550-acre estate in Northumberland where it runs sheep and beef enterprises alongside gun dog trials and training.

The Emblehope and Burngrange Estate, at Tarset, near Hexham, was bought by the club in 2016.

It is enveloped by Kielder Forest and is on the market at offers over £8m.

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Selling agent GSC Grays says the property is a good match for regenerative livestock farming and has diverse natural capital and conservation opportunities.

It is described as a landscape of exceptional ecological significance, offering considerable potential for nature recovery, climate resilience, and environmental stewardship.

As well as the Kennel Club’s sporting and events enterprise, the estate has an in-hand sheep and beef farming operation of up to 40 suckler cows, 200 ewes and 70 hill ewe hoggs, and commercial woodland.

Stewardship income

Significant income is generated by a 10-year Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement.

This runs until December 2032, bringing in almost £2.6m in revenue and capital payments over its 10-year term.

Only a small part of the capital works have been completed, with the buyer obliged to take on the CS agreement.

The livestock and dog enterprises are centred on Emblehope Farm, where there is a range of modern and traditional agricultural buildings for housing and storage, kennelling, and a four-bedroom farmhouse.

Burngrange Farm has a three-bedroom cottage, and set between the two farmsteads is a purpose-built meeting place.

The land is made up of 7,012 acres of upland grazing, 395 acres of woodland, and 136 acres of in-bye.

It includes Kielderhead and Emblehope Moors site of special scientific interest, incorporating a large blanket bog.

A restrictive covenant prohibits the erection of wind turbines on the estate. 

Throphill © HH Land Estates

Northumberland mixed farm

Also in Northumberland, near Mitford, H&H Land & Estates is launching Throphill Farm, a 178-acre arable and livestock rearing farm with modern buildings and full planning permission for a three-bedroom house.

The agent says the sale offers an exceptional opportunity for established farm businesses seeking to expand, or for buyers seeking a self-contained, ring-fenced enterprise.

The farm includes a mixture of arable land, grassland, and woodland, all within a single parcel.

Throphill Farm is on the market at a guide price of £1.695m and is also available in two lots.

Land at Woodford © Bletsoes

Northamptonshire bare land

The death of the owner brings 171 acres of mostly arable land to the market at Woodford, near Thrapston, Northamptonshire.

The Grade 3 land had been contract farmed but the agreement has ended following the completion of the 2025 winter wheat harvest.

The historic rotation has included winter and spring barley and spring beans.

The property also includes a small area of woodland.

Among the farm buildings is a grain store with capacity of about 550-600t and a large shed, formerly housing cattle but now used for machinery and fertiliser storage.

The land is being sold by Bletsoes at a guide price of £2.45m or is available in four lots.

Large prime block to let in Norfolk

Church Farm © Brown & Co

A change in farming policy sees 881 acres of arable land available to let in Norfolk on a five-year farm business tenancy (FBT).

Church Farm at Mautby offers commercial farming at scale over mainly Grade 1 land in large, easily worked blocks, says Anne Barker of letting agent Brown & Co.

“An opportunity of this scale is unusual and it is many years since we have seen anything like this come to the market in Norfolk; it represents an exciting prospect,” she says.

The land, with coarse loam over clay and sandy soil, is farmed in a rotation of combinable cropping and sugar beet.

Up to 74 acres of potatoes have been grown under licence on the land, and consent to continue this arrangement will be given under the new FBT agreement.

There is a chemical store and water tanks for 12,000 litres of borehole supply.

The farmyard also includes a public weighbridge run by the landlord, and the tenant will also be given the option to take on up to 6,200t of grain storage.

The FBT offered will run from 29 September 2025 to 28 September 2030, with provision for a rent review from 29 September 2028. 

The letting is by informal tender, to be received at Brown & Co’s Norwich office by noon on Friday, 29 August 2025.