Mid-Wales auction nets £810,000

A 149-acre livestock farm two miles north of Rhayader, Mid Wales, sold at auction for £810,000 last week.

Gilfach-y-Rhiw, St Harmon, was sold in two lots to local farmers by Shrewsbury firm Halls.

A detached three-bedroom farmhouse needing modernisation, traditional stone ranges and more modern purpose-built livestock buildings sold for £430,000 with 36 acres of pasture. A further 113 acres of pastureland, hill grazing and an oak and larch wood, made £380,000.