Wide geographic spread and farmland types on offer

A Welsh livestock farm which generates an alternative income from a two-mile vehicle racing track is new to the market, launching at a guide price of £3.5m.

The current owner of the 395-acre Dolebolion, near Tregaron, created the asphalt track and hires it out to organisers of automotive events, including the testing of rally cars and other vehicles, tyre testing and marketing days.

The farm has hosted testing by competitors ahead of Rali Ceredigion and a world championship skateboarding event.

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Facilities related to the track include hardstanding yards and paddocks for parking.

The farm is being jointly marketed through Savills and Aled Ellis & Co.

Daniel Rees, Savills’ head of rural sales, south and west Wales, says it is a rare offering.

“Agriculture and tourism are the backbone to the county of Ceredigion and this unique farm with a sport and leisure venture offers new owners the opportunity to introduce their own ideas for its future,” he says.

While the track earns a secondary income for the business, grass-based beef and sheep are the farming enterprises.

Lowland fields near to the River Teifi produce silage and hay while livestock graze the upland fields.

Pockets of mature woodland in the centre of the farm provide habitat and shelter for livestock.

Modern outbuildings designed for feed, livestock and machinery are set around dedicated hardstanding yards – buildings which the agents suggest would suit other uses too.

A traditional stone barn has potential for conversion subject to planning consent.

Set away from the farmstead, a ruined house called Bronberllan has planning consent to be redeveloped as a holiday let.

It has an electricity supply already installed via underground cables from a transformer located on the farm.

Water and drainage pipes for guttering and wastewater are in place and also a cesspit with a soakaway.

The four-bedroom main farmhouse has the second highest energy efficiency rating, with an energy performance certificate B.

Aberdeenshire land with grain store

Land at Upper Anguston © Savills

Savills is also marketing 275 acres of farmland at Upper Anguston and The Baads at Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, a mixture of arable and grassland.

The class 3.2 and 4 land with free-draining soil – which sits in a region where rainfall averages 832mm – is in two blocks separated by a public road.

Managed in-hand as a mixed farming enterprise, recent cropping history has included winter oats, spring barley, winter wheat, oilseed rape, seed potatoes and turnips as livestock feed.

Winter wheat yields have averaged 9.1t/ha, spring barley 8.2t/ha, and seed potatoes 39.5-44.5t/ha.

The grain store with capacity for 800t was built five years ago. 

Offers over £1.375m are being sought for the whole. The land is also available in two lots.

Smaller scale in Cornwall

Upham Farm © DR Kivell Country Property

On the edge of the Cornish village of St Ive, near Liskeard, Upham Farm is smaller in scale but comes with two substantial residential properties.

In addition to its 47 acres of mostly grassland and some areas of arable and amenity woodland.

There is a five-bedroom barn conversion with solar panels, and a four-bedroom farmhouse which generates income as a holiday let.

There are also livestock and general-purpose buildings, with the entire property sitting in a ring-fence.

Upham Farm is guided at £1.65m with DR Kivell Country Property. 

Middlebrough grassland

Land at Easby © GSC Grays

At 29 acres, the launch of a parcel of Grade 3 grassland in Middlesbrough offers a different opportunity.

The land, which sits next to the road at Easby, near Great Ayton, has slowly permeable, slightly acid base, rich clay loam soils.

These have grown a range of high-yielding cereals as well as grass, and was recently direct drilled with herbal leys.

A Sustainable Farming Incentive agreement is in place until 2027, mostly focused on herbal leys and maintaining and establishing hedgerows, but as the agreement cannot be transferred, it will be removed from the scheme.

The land is being sold with a 30-year overage clause which requires 25% of any uplift in value on the grant of planning consent for any non-agricultural, horticultural or equestrian use to be passed to the vendor.

Selling agent GSC Grays is seeking offers of more than £260,000. Full and final offers must be submitted by 12pm on 15 October.