SUCCESSFULLY SOLD JACKSON - STOPS

A SMALL RESIDENTIAL FARM LYING ON THE
EDGE OF THE VILLAGE WITH A RANGE OF
TRADITIONAL FARM BUILDINGS AND LAND
WITH DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL

The sale of Vicarage Farm offers an increasingly rare opportunity to acquire a residential farm with development potential on the edge of the village.

The Grade II Listed farmhouse enjoys a wonderful position surrounded by mature grounds offering privacy and protection. The property is approached over a sweeping drive and whilst the farmhouse is habitable it is in need of modernising and updating.

Lying to the south of the farmhouse and benefitting from the access over the front or rear drive are the former traditional
farm buildings centred around a graveled courtyard. The principal range form an “L” shape with separate detached party barn and combined offer just under 3000 sq ft of covered accommodation. Given their condition and layout they offer great potential to be converted into residential accommodation subject to obtaining the relevant planning consents.

The house and buildings sit in grounds totalling 1.75 acres. Running with the farmstead is a further 18.66 acres of land used for grazing and lying in five fields all of which enjoy road frontage. Given the location of the land, it is considered that some of the fields offer long-term development potential.

As with all individual properties, a viewing is highly recommended to fully appreciate its setting and the development opportunities on offer.

LOT ONE - EDGED RED
THE FARMHOUSE
The front door opens into the entrance hall with parquet flooring and providing access to cloakroom, walk in coat cupboard and the reception hall. All rooms radiate off the reception hall with traditional staircases rising to the first floor.

The sitting room lies at the end of the house and enjoys a double aspect with stone fireplace lying in the corner. The dining room benefits from exposed timbers with stone inglenook fireplace and adjoining is the cosy family room overlooking the rear garden.

The vaulted kitchen, whilst dated, enjoys a double aspect with a range of fitted units and matching dresser. Current integrated appliances are all by Neff including oven and grill, five ring hob and dishwasher.

Beyond is the rear hall offering access to the utility room with plumbing for washing machine and dryer along with enamel
butlers sink. In the corner of the room sits the Trianco Eurostar diesel fired boiler. The integral double garage can be accessed from the rear hall or via a pair of electric up and over doors off the front drive.

First Floor
The front stairs rise to a galleried landing with inner landing.

The main bedroom lies above the sitting room enjoying a double aspect with a run of fitted wardrobes with matching dressing table and bedside cabinets.

Running along the landing is a walk-in storage cupboard, dated family bathroom, double bedroom with airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder with slatted shelving and second walk through bathroom.

The remaining double bedroom is accessed via the rear staircase with exposed timbers and vaulted ceiling.

GARDEN AND GROUNDS
The farm is approached over a gravel drive that sweeps round to the front of the house and continues into the courtyard. The front garden is screened by mature hedgerows offering privacy and protection and mainly laid to lawn and edged by mature borders with specimen trees offering dappled shade. Lying in front of the double garages is a pavioured parking area.

The rear garden enjoys a similar degree of privacy enclosed by mature hedgerows. A raised seating and dining terrace overlooks the rear south facing lawn with oval amenity pond.

Lying outside the formal garden is a wooded belt of trees with five bar field gate opening onto grass track which offers vehicular access to the pasture fields to the rear.

THE FARM BUILDINGS
The traditional farm buildings are centred around a gravelled courtyard with paved path running along the front elevation.
The buildings are typical of their era, constructed of timber frame with dwarf brick wall with treated feather boarding under a clay pan tile roof. The main range of barns form an ‘L’ shape with separate detached barn used as a party barn with cloakroom and housing diesel tank.

In their prime they would have been used for the stabling of horses, along with storing of implements and feedstuffs and the floor plan included within this brochure provides an overview of the layout and space on offer.

The buildings have been well maintained and offer structurally sound buildings that lend themselves for a variety of uses.
Clearly, they have potential for conversion into residential properties, whether as annexed living accommodation to the
main farmhouse or indeed as a standalone development, subject to obtaining the relevant planning consents.

The barns are fortunate in that they can be accessed from a separate rear drive and split away from the farmhouse if required.

PADDOCKS
Lying to the south of the farmstead are two paddocks that stretch down to and have road frontage and access onto the A6. The two fields total 10.4 acres and there is an amenity pond in one and the other has a public footpath crossing it.

LOT TWO - EDGED GREEN
Lying between the farmstead and The Square, which is a residential development, is what one would consider to be an
infill field totalling 3.43 acres. The field enjoys a long road frontage with Bedford Road and has its own vehicular access in the north western corner.

LOT THREE - EDGED BLUE
Lying to the west of the farmstead with extensive road frontage and direct access off the A6 are two further grass fields enclosed behind mature hedgerows and offering a further 4.82 acres of land.

LOCATION
The village of Wilstead is very much a traditional community with its own village hall, doctors’ surgery and shop with post
office. More extensive shopping and leisure facilities are available in the county town of Bedford with Milton Keynes, Cambridge and London all within easy travelling distance of the property. The area is well served by schooling for all ages, with Wilstead having its own lower school and Bedford is home to the renowned Harpur Trust Schools.

Junction 10 of the A1(M) is readily accessible as are Junctions 12 and 13 of the M1 motorway. Train services are available from Bedford and Flitwick into Kings Cross Thameslink and onto the City from 40 minutes and Bedford Station also benefits from an intercity link into London St Pancras International. Air travel is available locally from Luton airport with Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick slightly further afield.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage are connected.
Red diesel fired central heating to radiators.
Local Authority: Bedford Borough Council
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Outgoings: Council Tax Band “G” £3,449.99 for 2022/2023
Rights of Way: There is a Public Footpath that runs along the western side of the main drive to Lot One and continues along the headland of one of the grass fields and exits at the A6.
Tenure: Freehold.
EPC Rating: “Exempt”
Viewing: Strictly by appointment through the sole agents
Jackson-Stops. 1 Market Place, Woburn, MK17 9PZ.
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