Lot 1: House (with AOC), Mobile Home with Residential Consent, Farm Buildings with Re-Use Potential, Farmland and Woodland. In all about 28.15 acres

Spring Holton Farm House
The house was designed by renowned and award winning environmental architects Orme Architecture and provides light and airy accommodation with striking contemporary styling. The impressive main reception room is on the first floor in the form of the 47ft open-plan sitting room, dining area and kitchen. It has a triple aspect of full-height, triple & double glazed windows and sliding glass doors opening onto two roof terraces to make the most of morning and evening sun. The room has reclaimed wooden flooring with a patina finish, a stylish kitchen island with sweeping curves
and integrated appliances plus plenty of space for a family dining table. At the end of the room is a separate sitting room area with a delightful outlook over the garden, woodland and fields.The master bedroom enjoys similar elevation and views with an open-plan en suite bathroom and triple aspect full height windows. The ground floor provides two further double bedrooms a family bathroom plus a utility room and a lobby with built in storage. A plant room is accessed from outside.

A gravel driveway leads to a parking area and up to the house, which is set on a gently sloping hillside with lawns, bordered by a mature hedgerow. The owner has commissioned design & construction drawings from Hugo Bugg, winner of the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show Gold Medal & Best Show Garden awards. The designs can be made available.

Externally, the house is part rendered and part clad in timber and has a roof mounted 4kW solar panel array, which provides electricity & hot water and also a feed in tariff to the owner.

The property is designed to be energy efficient including a heat recovery ventilation system. The air tightness rating is understood to be just below passivhaus standard. Built by the current owners in around 2016-2018 the property also benefits from various guarantees.

Spring Holton Farm Yard
A separate entrance leads into the farmyard which includes a mobile home, farm buildings, workshop, storage plus a polytunnel and kitchen garden. The buildings and yard offer significant potential for alternative uses and some buildings may qualify for permitted development such as Class Q residential conversion. Parties should undertake their own planning enquiries.

Mobile Home
The mobile home and lean to has the benefit of a Certificate of Lawful Use for residential purposes along with associated driveway and parking, and was occupied by the current owner whilst constructing the house. The unit would now benefit from being replaced, but has an existing electricity and water connection and private drainage system. Further details are available from the selling agent.

Farm Buildings, Workshop, Storage & Kitchen
Garden
1. Livestock & Hay Barn: A 5 bay steel portal frame barn, mostly open sided with part timber boarding and with a corrugated sheet roof. Approximately 30m x 15m (100 feet x 50 feet)
2. Poultry Shed: An enclosed steel portal frame barn with nest boxes, perches, egg conveyors plus feed track and drinkers with a separate scratching area and an egg store. Approximately 45.80m x 20.70m (150 feet x 68 feet). Capacity for 11,055 birds. The poultry shed has significant potential for alternative uses (subject to planning). It has electricity and water and is fully enclosed with part concrete block, part timber walls and the internal floor could create useful additional floor space.

Also in the farmyard are two shipping containers, one of which has been converted into an insulated workshop with heating, lighting, window & doors, the other being used for general secure storage.

Next to the yard is a productive kitchen garden with a small polytunnel and fruit cage and mains water, used by the current owners to grow fruit and vegetables.

The Poultry Business (optional):
The owner has developed a profitable small farm business. They hold an independent packing licence and currently stock around 10,000 laying birds (with capacity for more). Birds are free range and are kept to a British Lion / RSPCA standard including a dedicated area of woodland and outside space. Egg prices increased in 2022 and 2023 and this has translated directly into higher profit. The birds and the associated infrastructure can be included or excluded from the sale by separate negotiation.

Farmland & Woodland
There is an excellent parcel of pasture farmland in Lot 1 which extends along the gently sloping hillside. It comprises about 22.08 acres across four good size fields, each well fenced with stock proof fencing and with the benefit of mains water and three road accesses. It is all easily managed from the house and parts enjoy extensive views. The land is a Grade 3 loamy/clayey soil and is let under short term licence, providing an additional income. There is a woodland plantation separating the house from the farmyard, plus two additional woodland areas, one including a natural pond. Parts of these are currently used as scratching areas for the free range poultry.

Local Authority: Somerset Council
Services: Mains electricity (solar supplemented), mains water, private sewage, fibre broadband.
We understand that the private drainage at the mobile home may not comply with the relevant regulations. Further information is being sought.
Council Tax: House – F; Mobile Home - A
Tenure: Farmland is subject to short term licences. Freehold with vacant possession provided on completion.
Planning: The house is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition. Please contact the agent for further details.
Wayleaves and easements: The property is sold subject to any wayleaves or easements, whether mentioned in these particulars or not.
Public Rights of Way: A public footpath crosses part of the property.
Guide Price: Lot 1 £1,325,000

The small village of East Chinnock has facilities including a pre-school, church and village hall with travelling post office. The neighbouring village of West Coker has a primary school, butcher’s/village shop, public house, hotel /restaurant and doctor's surgery. To the west is the Georgian market town of Crewkerne with its mainline station, Waitrose supermarket and a wide range of independent stores and leisure facilities. To the east is the regional centre of Yeovil offering a comprehensive range of all facilities including mainline rail links. This area of South Somerset is renowned for its beautiful countryside and there are a myriad of local footpaths for those that enjoy walking. The popular historic village of Beaminster is located 9 miles away within the Dorset AONB. The beautiful Jurassic coastline lies to the south within approximately 35 minutes’ drive. The A30 provides excellent road links to join in with the A356 and A303 respectively.