Smaller farms and grassland blocks on offer

Retirement and bereavement see two livestock farms in national parks coming to the market this week.

High House Farm, a 230-acre holding at Gawthrop, near Sedbergh, is launching in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, while a beef and sheep holding comes to the market in the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons).

High House Farm is for sale due to bereavement. It has permanent pasture and rough grazing, stone farm buildings and a three-bedroom farmhouse in need of complete renovation.

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It is being sold by H&H Land & Estates at auction in four lots, with guide prices ranging from £70,000-£80,000 and £550,000-£600,000.

Lot 1 is the farmhouse, buildings and 65 acres, while lot 2 comprises 64 acres of permanent pasture. The remaining two lots are 41 acres and 60 acres.

The sale is at Sedbergh People’s Hall, Howgill Lane, Sedbergh, on 9 October 2025.

Retirement sale in Wales

In Wales, retirement sees Hafod, near Llandeilo, brought to the market by Savills at a guide price of £1.7m.

Daniel Rees, head of residential and rural sales for Savills in South and West Wales, says that while the farm is run as a livestock holding there are also opportunities for tourism diversification.

Hafod Farm © Savills

Two of the traditional farm buildings – a coach house and a stone barn – have planning permission in place for conversion into two holiday cottages, each with two bedrooms.

The 149-acre farm has productive grassland, amenity land and mature woodland. As well as its traditional stone buildings, it has three modern barns for livestock, feed and machinery.

The farmhouse, thought to have been built in the 1850s but entirely refurbished in recent years, has five bedrooms.

Wiltshire pasture farm

Another grassland holding, smaller in size at 64 acres, is on the market at West Ashton, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

Amouracre Farm has pastureland with slowly permeable, slightly acidic, base-rich loamy clay soils and is predominantly Grade 4 land.

Amouracre Farm © Symonds & Sampson

As well as almost 750sq m of traditional outbuildings, the property comes with a four-bedroom farmhouse.

Symonds & Sampson has set a guide price of £1.5m for Amouracre Farm but is also offering the property for sale as two lots.

Grassland blocks

Elsewhere, in Devon and Northumberland, two blocks of grassland are being offered for sale.

Stags has launched 46 acres at Wixon Cottage, Chulmleigh, land that has been farmed organically since the 1980s.

Land at Wixton © Stags

It includes four acres of woodland known as Higher Dodyard Plantation and is being sold with a restrictive covenant preventing the land from being developed for solar energy.

The fields, which have slowly permeable, seasonally wet, acid loamy and clay soils, are mown and grazed and managed under a Sustainable Farming Incentive agreement. There is a natural water supply.

A Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship agreement ends on the 31 December 2027.

A grazing licence is in place until 31 October 2025 when vacant possession will be available.

Stags is guiding the sale at £350,000.

In Northumberland, youngsRPS is marketing 34 acres of ring-fenced Grade 4 land at Wooley Burn Foot, Allendale, near Hexham.

The land is mostly grassland and with four acres of woodland and riverbank alongside the East Allen River.

Wooley Burn Foot © youngsRPS

The property includes a set of fixed livestock holding pens.

“Coupled with the land’s accessibility, it makes the property ideal for satellite farming from an established unit or an ideal basis from where to start farming or smallholding operations,” says Harry Morshead, director at youngsRPS.

“Subject to the necessary planning consents, the land could also lend itself well to the development of stabling, a small shed or a small steading.”

A guide price of £250,000 has been set for the block.