CLOSING DATE SET FOR TUESDAY, 25 July 2023 AT 12 NOON.

SITUATION
Hawksnest Farm is located in a private position approximately 6 miles to the south west of the settlement of Lauder within the Scottish Borders, approximately 7.5 miles north of the town of Galashiels and some 30 miles south east of Edinburgh.

The nearby towns of Lauder, Earlston and Galashiels all provide an excellent range of business services and recreational facilities, whilst Edinburgh is highly accessible either by road via the A68 or A7, or via rail with the Edinburgh-Borders railway being 3.5 miles away in Stow or Tweedbank 8 miles to the south.

Galashiels is the commercial centre of the Borders and has a broad range of amenities including major supermarkets, shops, sporting and recreational facilities. The town is within easy reach of the Borders General Hospital and Scottish Borders Council Headquarters and has excellent road links with the other main Borders towns, Edinburgh and the North of England.

The Scottish Borders is well known for its recreational, amenity and sporting opportunities and the farm enjoys a very central position within the county being a short distance from Southern Upland Way which leads south from the Lammermuir Hills, before crossing over the Tweed Valley. The area benefits from a plethora of golf courses and hunting with the Lauderdale, Berwickshire and Buccleuch Hounds, horse racing at Kelso, as well as salmon fishing on the River Tweed.

Agriculturally, the local area is well provided for by merchants and suppliers, with the nearby St Boswells Mart (13 miles), Stirling Agricultural Centre, just outside Stirling (65 miles) and the Borderway Mart at Carlisle (68 miles) used as outlets for livestock which the area is renowned for producing.

DESCRIPTION
Hawksnest is a compact mixed farming unit and comprises an attractive residential dwellinghouse, range of modern and traditional farm buildings and approximately 80.15 Ha (198.05 Acres) of land in total including roads, yards and buildings. The farmland lies in a single block to the south and east of the farm steading and is bound to the east by the Allan Water. Currently all of the ground is down to pasture and used for a mix of grazing and fodder production. The farm benefits from a shared access road which leads from the minor public road highlighted A-B-C-D on the site plan.

LOT 2: MODERN SHED AND LAND EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 67.03 HA (165.63 ACRES)

Farm Buildings
There is one free standing farm building with a lean-to located to the northern boundary of Lot 2 comprising the following:

Modern Shed (19.9m x 8.75m)
Of steel portal frame construction under a corrugated roof with breeze block walls, Yorkshire board side cladding and an earth/stone floor, there is also a small Lean-to Store (6.0m x 2.5m) located to the north of the building.

Lean-to (19.9m x 4.80m)
Of timber construction under a corrugated roof with a breeze block wall, tin side cladding and a concrete floor.

Farmland
The land within Lot 2 extends to approximately 67.03 Ha (165.63 Acres). The land is situated in a single ring-fenced block, and is bound to the east by the Allan Water and accessed directly off the shared private road which bounds the subjects to the south west. The land in Lot 2 has been classified by the James Hutton Institute as primarily Grade 4.2, with a small area of Grade 5.1 to the north west and is currently down to a mix of grazing and silage ground. The land is generally of an easterly aspect rising overall from 220m above sea level at its lowest point to south east of the holding to 300m at its highest point to the west of the land. The fields are well laid out and are largely of a generous size and can easily accommodate modern machinery. The land has benefitted from regular applications of farmyard manure generated from the livestock enterprise on the holding, with the pasture fields to the north west of the holding having historically been used for outwintering the farm’s resident Luing cattle herd with neighbouring adjacent woodland plantations providing a level of shelter from the north.