SUNNYRIGG FARM MOAT, LONGTOWN, CARLISLE, CA6 5PQ

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1 Carlisle/M6 Motorway 10 miles, Brampton 13 miles, Longtown 4 miles (All distances approximate) SUNNYRIGG FARM MOAT, LONGTOWN, CARLISLE, CA6 5PQ A rare opportunity to purchase an intensive dairy unit of about acres (44.36 hectares) with a modernised three bedroomed single storied farmhouse, a good range of modern and traditional buildings and about 107 acres (43.30 hectares) of temporary and permanent grass in a convenient ring fence. The farm steading is positioned well back from the public road and enjoys panoramic views over the surrounding countryside to the Lake District Fells, Solway Firth and Southern Uplands with the farm located about 10 miles north of Carlisle and Junction 44 on the M6 Motorway. For sale by Private Treaty as a Whole with vacant possession upon completion of the sale GUIDE PRICE: 750,000 Vendor s Solicitor: Bell Park Kerridge (Elizabeth Atkinson dealing), Clifford Court, Cooper Way, Parkhouse, Carlisle, CA3 0JG. Tel: (01228) Web:

2 LOCATION DIRECTIONS Sunnyrigg Farm is situated in an attractive rural area of north Cumbria about 4 miles north east of Longtown, 10 miles north of Junction 44 on the M6 motorway and the City of Carlisle and 13 miles north west of the market town of Brampton. The small hamlet of Kirkandrews Moat lies just to the west of the farm and the position of the property is shown arrowed on the small and larger scale Location Plan. From Junction 44 on the M6 motorway at Carlisle, take the A7 north heading for Longtown. In Longtown take the third turning on the right, before crossing the bridge over the River Esk, onto the minor road signposted for Netherby. Continue along this road for about 4 miles until reaching the village of Kirkandrews Moat. The farm access lane is then located on the right hand side of the road approximately 400 metres after crossing the village boundary. DESCRIPTION A productive and compact farm of about acres (44.36 hectares) which has been run as an intensive dairy unit in recent years with the land lying within a convenient ring fence around the farm steading. It includes a three bedroomed single storied farmhouse, and a good range of modern and traditional buildings. There is a recently installed Westfalia 10 point abreast milking parlour with 32 litre jars and ACR s and an adjoining dairy with 6,000 litre bulk tank, 400 litre Cotswold water heater and volume washer. There are also cubicles for about 200 cattle, two silage pits with approximately 1,750 tonne capacity, two good sized young stock buildings, a large slurry lagoon with adjoining slurry tower and about 107 acres (43.30 hectares) of temporary and permanent grass as well as a small area of grazed woodland. The extent of the property is shown coloured in pink with the right of way over the first 200 metres of farm access track shown coloured in blue on the attached Sale Plan. AMENITIES There is a Primary School in Longtown together with a Post Office and a range of shops and other services. William Howard Secondary School is then located at Brampton where there are a larger range of shops and other facilities and Carlisle has an excellent shopping centre with a full range of other services with two out of town superstores to the north of the city centre and within about 11 miles of the farm. There are numerous sport and leisure facilities in the area including golf at Carlisle and Brampton, horse racing at Carlisle and excellent salmon and trout fishing in the River Eden and Border Esk together with their various tributaries. There is a station on the main West Coast rail line at Carlisle with Brampton having a station on the Carlisle to Newcastle rail line. The Scottish Border Country, Lake District National Park, Keilder Forest and Reservoir, Kershope Forest and Hadrian s Wall are all within easy reach of the farm and there are good Livestock Markets at Longtown and Carlisle. TENURE Freehold.

3 COUNCIL TAX INGOINGS MILK QUOTA BOUNDARIES SERVICES LAND STATUS MINERAL AND SPORTING RIGHTS BURDENS The farmhouse is listed under Band C by Carlisle City Council with the standard council tax payable for the 2010/2011 financial year being 1, The Purchaser will be required to take over any remaining silage in the two silage pits upon completion of the sale at valuation. The valuation of this silage will be undertaken by C & D Property Services and their measurement and valuation will be final and binding on both parties. The tyres for the silage pits are included in the sale 742,901 litres of wholesale milk quota, which is unused for the 2011/2012 milk year, may be taken over by the purchaser for 1, As far as the Vendors are aware the boundary responsibilities are shown on the Sale Plan by inward facing T marks. Where no T marks are shown no further information is available. The farmhouse and dairy are served by mains electricity and a metered mains water supply, which also serves some field troughs, with foul drainage from the house to a septic tank installation. A telephone is also installed in the farmhouse subject to British Telecom Regulations. The remaining farm buildings are served by a three phase electricity supply and natural water from the farm bore hole, which also supplies some field troughs, but this supply can also be backed up by the mains supply if required. The land is all designated as lying within a non-sda area by the Rural Payments Agency. The mineral rights were reserved by the Netherby Estate when they sold the farm in 1912 and are thus excluded from the sale but the sporting rights are included in the sale. The property is sold subject to all rights including rights of way, whether public or private, rights of light, support, drainage, water and electricity supply and other rights, obligations and easements, quasi-easements and restrictive covenants and all existing and proposed wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cables, drains and water, gas and other pipes, whether or not constituted in the title deeds or referred to in these particulars. The Purchaser will be held to have satisfied him/herself as to the nature of such burdens and for further details are advised to contact the Vendors solicitors. There is a right of way over the first 200 metres of farm access track in favour of the Vendor and it should be noted that there is an unpaid electricity wayleave in place as it covers the farm s own supply. About 250 metres of the farm access track was re-laid in autumn 2010 by the Highways Bitumen Division and this work has the benefit of a ten year guarantee.

4 SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME The Vendor holds hectares of non-sda entitlements with a unit value of euros each in He will be submitting a claim to cover these entitlements for 2011 and this payment will be retained by him. The entitlements will then be transferred across to the Purchaser for their use in Copies of the 2009 and 2010 Single Payment Scheme claim forms are available for inspection at the offices of the selling agents. ENTRY LEVEL STEWARDSHIP SCHEME METHOD OF SALE The Vendor entered into a five year Entry Level Stewardship Scheme on the 1 st November 2009 and this Scheme must be taken over by the Purchaser. The Management Options under this Scheme include mixed stocking on almost all of the fields as well as hedgerow and ditch management. Natural England have informed us that these Management Options can be amended provided any new Options still meet the required target points required on the holding under the Scheme. A copy of the approved Scheme is available for inspection at the selling agents offices. The property will be offered for sale by Private Treaty as a Whole. The Vendor reserves the right to amalgamate, withdraw or exclude any of the property shown at any time or to generally amend the particulars of sale. EXCHANGE OF CONTRACTS The Purchaser will be required to pay a deposit amounting to 10% of AND COMPLETION the purchase price upon exchange of contracts and this will take place within four weeks of an offer being accepted. This deposit will be non-returnable in the event of the Purchaser being unable to complete a sale for any reasons not attributable to the Vendors or their agents. It is anticipated that completion will then take place within four weeks of exchange of contracts. FIXTURES AND FITTINGS POSSESSION VIEWING The carpets in the farmhouse are included in the sale together with any fixed gates and feed barriers located within the farm buildings. Vacant possession of the property will be given upon completion of the sale. Strictly by appointment through the sole selling agents:- C & D Property Services on Tel: (01228) The Farmhouse This is a modernised three bedroomed single storied dwelling with a multi-fuel stove in the living room and UPVC framed double glazed windows. This stove also used to heat the water and radiators throughout the farmhouse but no longer does so. A replacement stove is therefore required or a new central heating boiler installed to heat the water and radiators. The accommodation briefly comprises:- Entrance Porch 10 3 x 4 1 (3.12m x 1.25m) with single glazed windows and exterior door and entrance door to hallway.

5 Hallway Dining Kitchen Living Room with built-in airing cupboard incorporating hot water cylinder, builtin cupboard, laminate floor, telephone point, ceiling hatch with pulldown ladder to floored and fully insulated loft with electric light and doors off to living room, kitchen and inner passage x 11 6 (4.42m x 3.50m) with range of Moben base and wall units, one and a half bowl sink unit, fitted double electric oven with integral grill, integral electric hob with extractor hood above, integral dishwasher, plumbing for washing machine, double glazed windows to three sides and radiator x 15 2 (5.19m x 4.63m) with large multi-fuel stove, TV aerial point and double glazed windows to two sides and laminate floor. Inner Passage Bathroom Bedroom 1 Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 opens from hallway with doors off to three bedrooms and bathroom. 6 7 x 5 6 (2.01m x 1.67m) with white three piece suite comprising WC, wash hand basin and panelled bath with shower over, double glazed window and radiator x 8 4 (3.85m x 2.54m) with telephone point, small wood burning stove and double glazed window x (3.45m x 3.30m) with built-in shelving to alcove in wall, radiator and double glazed window x 14 5 (4.64m x 4.39m) with Sharp fitted wardrobes to one wall, loft access, two radiators and double glazed windows to two sides. The digital electricity meters and isolator switch for the generator are also located in this bedroom within discrete purpose built wooden cupboards (please note that the sharp chest of drawers and two bedside tables are excluded from the sale). The Farm Buildings The farm buildings comprise a combination of modern and traditional structures having been used primarily for dairying and young stock housing but are equally of use for stockrearing or alternative uses. The buildings comprise the following:- Traditional Range Lean-To Calving Boxes Pole Barn of mainly stone walls under slate roofs formed into a U shape around a concreted courtyard with loose box, dairy with 6,000 litre bulk tank, farm office, a 10 point abreast parlour and former byre now used as calf pens and tool store x 11 3 approx (10.92m x 3.44m) built of brick walls under a corrugated metal roof and attached to the traditional buildings x 17 3 approx (9.32m x 5.28m) with timber uprights and corrugated metal roof.

6 Cubicle Shed Main Cubicle Shed 79 0 x 49 9 approx (24.04m x 15.17m) pole barn with corrugated metal roof divided into cubicles for 26 cows, area for bull housing and a sawdust storage area x 94 3 (31.33m x 28.75m) comprising of a central section with an additional lean-to on one side of steel portal framed construction with fibre cement roof currently fitted out for about 120 cubicle with a central feed bunker together with a new molasses tank for about 30 tonnes. Monopitch Roofed Cubicle Shed 68 3 x 22 9 approx (20.8m x 6.98m) steel framed with fibre cement roof and part box profile sheeted walls with cubicles for 15 cattle together with cattle handling area. (The pressure cylinder for the bore hole is situated in the corner of this shed.) Monopitch Roofed Cubicle Shed x 16 9 approx (39.01m x 5.08m) steel framed with box profile sheeting to the walls and fibre cement roof and fitted out for 40 cubicles which are currently used for heifer accommodation. Two Outside Silage Pits Monopitched Roofed Storage Building Slurry Lagoon Permastore Slurry Tower 90 x 40 approx (27.45m x 12.12m) and 90 x 30 approx (27.45m x 9.09m) which are both built of steel and concrete panel walls with concrete floors and with approx 1,000 tonne and approx 750 tonne capacities respectively. 60 x 30 approx (18.30m x 9.15m) timber framed with sheeted metal roof and side cladding which is currently used for hay and straw storage x 35 6 approx (28.5m x 10.82m) of steel and concrete sleeper construction with slurry channel leading to an underground reception pit where the slurry is then pumped into a tower. with approx 320,000 litre capacity. Galvanised Feed Bin for Parlour with capacity of approximately 6 tonnes. Young Stock Building Young Stock Housing 78 6 x 23 9 approx (23.96m x 7.25m) of concrete block wall construction under a sheeted metal roof with the emergency generator located in one corner of the building x 21 6 approx (33.55m x 6.56m) steel framed with concrete panel walls with space boarding above and box profile roofing with extension at one end 30 6 x 25 3 approx (9.28m x 7.69m), again of similar construction, with feed passage along full length of main building.

7 The Land The land is gently undulating and is currently down to a mixture of temporary and permanent grassland with a small area of grazed woodland. Field nos 2, 3, 5 and 9 on the Sale Plan have been reseeded during the last two years with Field nos 6 and 7 amalgamated to form one larger enclosure. Field no 10 has also been divided into two enclosures with a small paddock of about 2 acres (0.80 hectares) being formed adjoining the steading. A cow track has been formed with concrete sleepers in field no 6. The majority of the grassland is cut for silage and the farm was carrying about 100 dairy cows although young stock grazing and additional silage ground is taken on a seasonal basis from other landowners in the area. The majority of the land is easily accessible from the farm access lane with most of the enclosures watered either from the farm borehole or from the metered mains supply. ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE An extract from the EPC for the house is shown below with the full details available on request.

8 Schedule of Area Parish of Kirkandrews-on-Esk Parcel numbers and areas taken from Rural Payment Agency s digital plans as well as National Grid 1:2500 scale ordnance survey plans Field No On Sale Plan Description Hectares Acres 1 Permanent Grass Temporary Grass (Reseed autumn, 2010) Temporary Grass (Reseed autumn, 2010) Permanent Grass Temporary Grass (Reseed autumn, 2009) Temporary Grass Temporary Grass Permanent Grass Temporary Grass (Reseed spring 2010) Temporary Grass Part Temporary/Part Permanent Grass Grazed Woodland Farm Steading Farm Access Lane Totals has acs Details prepared 21 st February 2011 and amended on the 12 th April 2011 with photographs taken at an earlier date Ref: RWS Important Notice C & D Property Services for themselves and for the Vendors/Lessors of this property, give you notice that:- 1. The mention of any appliances and or services within these particulars does not imply that they are in full and efficient working order. 2. The particulars are set out as a general outline only for the guidance of intending purchasers or lessees and do not constitute, nor constitute part of, an offer or contract. 3. All descriptions, dimensions, references to condition and necessary permissions for use and occupation and other details are given having taken all reasonable steps to avoid committing an offence under the Property Misdescriptions Act Nonetheless, such statements do not constitute any warranty or representation by the Vendor and are accurate only to the best of the present information and belief of the Vendor. 4. No person in the employment of C & D Property Services has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to this property nor is any such representation or warranty given whether by C & D Property Services or the Vendors/Lessors of this property.

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