Part of popular Cornish estate available
A section of the southern part of Cornwall’s Port Eliot estate is for sale as a whole or in nine lots, some of which are significant-sized farms.
Port Eliot is a 6,000-acre estate in St Germans, Cornwall, and is home to the Port Eliot literary festival.
The 863-acre portion of the estate is for sale as a whole for £4.7m or in nine lots of various sizes and uses.
The first, a fully equipped mixed farm let on a traditional tenancy, has a guide price of £2.4m.
Minard, Rytha and Treskilly farms, stretches over 512 acres and is nine miles from Liskeard and 10 miles from Saltash.
It includes a seven-bedroom Georgian farmhouse, a Grade II listed three-bedroom farmhouse and various farm buildings, traditional and modern.
About 300 acres of the land is arable, with productive well drained loams of Grade 2 and 3, with some areas of Grade 4.
The Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy is for 509 acres and provides an income of £23,200 a year.
Around 76 acres of land make up the third lot and is on offer for £375,000. The land at Buttervilla is productive arable and pasture land used for cereal and forage crops and livestock grazing.
The second lot, around 148 acres of woodland, offers sporting and amenity potential for £75,000.
Other lots include a 15-acre smallholding with a farmhouse for £600,000, a total of 23 acres of productive land for £75,000 and around 22 acres of pasture for £100,000.
Productive sloping pasture on the market for £275,000 makes up the seventh lot, with a farmhouse and three cottages making up the eighth and ninth respectively.
(Savills 01392 455 747)
