Prime arable choice widens with more farms for sale
A large offering of commercial arable farms and land is about to come to the market, topped by West Fen Farm, March, Cambridgeshire, with 472 acres of Grade 1 silt.
The farm has a profitable beef enterprise and is available as a whole for in excess of £6m or in two lots.
About 456 acres of the land can grow cereals and vegetables, supported by about 1,900t of grain storage and drying facilities and a 1.5m gallon abstraction licence.
Suiting the commercial land market, the only accommodation is a three-bedroom bungalow with a large annexe, while income diversity comes from cattle housing for 2,000 head.
There is planning consent for a 500kW anaerobic digester and the vendor is willing to rent back the cattle yards.
Selling agent Strutt & Parker has also launched Rummers Farm, near Wisbech, with 562 acres of Grade 1 fully irrigated land as a whole or in three lots. (Strutt & Parker 020 7318 4668 )
In Northamptonshire, New Lodge Farm at Walgrave offers almost 407 acres of productive commercial arable land and is the largest block to come to the market in the county this year. This includes a farmstead with planning potential and is for sale as a company.
With a three-bedroom farmhouse let under an assured shorthold tenancy, the Grade 3 land is in one block with modern farm buildings and a traditional brick range. Selling agent Bidwells is looking for offers of more than £4.75m.
The same firm is also selling Lewis Farm at Wigtoft, Lincolnshire, with just over 109 acres of Grade 1 land, general-purpose buildings and a three-bedroom farmhouse. It is for sale as whole or in four lots with an overall guide price in excess of £1.8m. (Bidwells 01223 559 342)
Retirement brings 361 acres of light land to the market with irrigation at Beachamwell, Norfolk. The Grade 3 land offers soils suitable for cereals, sugar beet, carrots and potatoes. There is a summer abstraction licence for 16m gallons and the guide price here is for offers in excess of £3.2m, including entitlements. (Savills 01603 229 227)
Productive arable and grassland with versatile buildings comes to the market at Allwood Farm, Woodend, Northamptonshire. For sale as a whole or in three lots, with an overall guide price of £2.25m, it offers about 32,375sq ft of farm buildings, including a large double-span cattle shed and almost 252 acres of Grade 3 mainly arable land. (Fisher German 01295 271 555)
A block of productive Grade 3 arable land is also on the market in Midlothian. The 124 acres at Buteland, Balerno, sits on the banks of the Water of Leith and has a £575,000 guide price. (Knight Frank 01312 229 600)