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Lot 2 of 3

Little Forsham Farm & Little Thornden Farm, Rolvenden, Cranbrook, TN17 4PP.

An excellent opportunity to purchase a Wealden grass farm located in a rural location on a country lane and comprising a 5-bedroom detached farmhouse (Agricultural Occupancy Condition), a range of modern farm buildings, stables and pastureland. The farm is within the Cranbrook School Catchment area.

Freehold - Council Tax Band G

For sale as whole or in up to 3 lots.

In all about 165 acres (66.8 hectares)

Guide Prices:

Lot 1
Little Forsham Farmhouse, farm buildings and land (about 11.7 acres)
Guide Price £1,000,000

Lot 2
Land at Little Forsham Farm (about 45.8 acres)
Guide Price £400,000 -£450,000

Lot 3
Little Thornden Farmland and Building (about 107.5 acres)
Guide Price £850,000 - £900,000

Whole
Little Forsham & Little Thornden Farms (about 165 acres)
Guide Price £2,250,000 - £2,350,000


Situation

Little Forsham Farm is situated to the south of Rolvenden village in the High Weald National Landscape (formerly AONB). Rolvenden is an attractive and popular village and has a number of local amenities including public houses, a primary school, a village hall and a church. The local towns of Tenterden & Cranbrook provide a wider range of amenities including high street shopping, GP surgeries, restaurants, pubs, churches and both primary and secondary schools. The Cinque Port Town of Rye (Sussex) is about 11 miles to the south, and its station provides services into London with journey times from 1 hour 6 minutes. Ashford and its international passenger station is about 18 miles away with High Speed services to London St Pancras in about 38 minutes.

Method of Sale

The farm is offered for sale by Private Treaty with offers invited for the whole or in lots. In the event of competing offers, interested parties may be asked to submit their “best and final” offer or offers. The seller also reserves the right to offer the land by informal tender or auction if the need arises.

Little Forsham Farm (Lots 1 & 2)

Lot 1 Little Forsham Farmhouse, Farm Buildings and Land (red on plan)

Little Forsham Farmhouse

A detached farmhouse set in lawned gardens and offering 5 double bedrooms. The farmhouse which would now benefit from updating and modernisation is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition (AOC). Please refer to the planning section for further details.

Farm Buildings

An extensive yard accessed from Wassall Lane and comprising a range of agricultural and equestrian buildings extending to approximately 1363 m2 (14,675 ft2).

1) Covered Cattle Yard, about 24.5m x 20.8m
2) Open Sided Hay Barn about 13.7m x 12.8m
3) Covered Cattle Yard, about 19.0m x 12.8m
4) Hay Barn, about 18.4m x 9.2m
5) Old Cattle Yard, about 18.6m x 10.4m
6) Stables (4 loose boxes), about 14.3m x 4.9m
7) Stables (3 loose boxes), about 12.2m x 4.3m
8) Stables (2 loose boxes), about 8.0m x 4.3m
9) Polytunnel, unmeasured
10) Outdoor Riding Arena, about 40m x 20m with sand surface requiring improvement
11) Kennels

Land

To the rear of the house and buildings is a block of grazing land extending to about 8.2 acres (3.3 ha) and comprising mainly former horse paddocks.

Lot 2 - Land at Little Forsham Farm (blue on plan)

Permanent pastureland divided into a number parcels extending to about 45.8 acres (about 18.5 ha) with frontage to Hastings Road (A28) and frontage and access to Wassall Lane. The land is classified as Grade 3.

There are a number of established ponds and small woodland shaws.

Little Thornden Farm (Lot 3)

Lot 3 -Little Thornden Farm (green on Plan)

A block of pastureland extending to about 107.5 acres (about 43.5 ha) accessed from Wassall Lane. The land slopes gently to the south until it meets the grazing marshland which is bounded by the Hexden Channel along the land’s southern boundary.

The land is all permanent pasture and has stockproof boundaries which are either mature hedgerows or drainage ditches. The land lies between 2 and 15 metres above mean sea level and is classified as Grade 3.

There is a general-purpose steel framed and open sided barn close to the entrance measuring about 18.4m x 9.1m.

Soil Type

Soilscapes 8, 18 and 20 ()

Tenure & Council Tax

The properties are offered for sale freehold with vacant possession of all parts on completion.

Little Forsham Farmhouse – Council Tax Band G (Ashford Borough Council)

Planning

Little Forsham Farmhouse (Lot 1) is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition (AOC) which was imposed when planning consent was granted for the house in the mid 1980s under planning reference AS/85/0032. Planning condition No. 4 states “The occupation of the dwelling shall be limited to a person solely or mainly employed or last employed in the locality in agriculture as defined in Section 336 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990, or in forestry, or a dependant of such a person residing with him or her, or a widow or widower of such a person.’’

Agriculture is defined in Section 336 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 as “Agriculture includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming, the breeding and keeping of livestock (including any creature for the production of food, wool, skins or fur or for the purpose of its use in the farming of land), the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming of land for other agricultural purposes, and ‘agricultural’ shall be construed accordingly”.

All other planning enquiries relating to any Lot must be directed to Ashford Borough Council planning department.

Services

Little Forsham Farmhouse: Mains water & electricity, private drainage, oil fired central heating.

Mobile: O2, Three and Vodafone.
Broadband : Call Flow, BT
Little Forsham Farm Buildings: Mains water & Electricity
Little Thornden Farm: None.

Public Rights of Way

There are no footpaths which cross the farms.

Shooting, Hunting & Fishing Rights

These are all in hand.

Agents Note

*The concrete stored at Little Forsham Farm will removed from the property prior to completion of the sale.*

Viewing

Viewing of ALL lots including the land and buildings are strictly by appointment only through our Ashford office on[use Contact Agent Button] or our Tenterden office on[use Contact Agent Button].

Health and Safety

Prospective purchasers must have regard for their own safety during viewings. Neither the sellers or Hobbs Parker Estate Agents accept any responsibility for any accident or injury as a result of viewing the property.

Acreage, Plans & Boundaries

The plan on these sales particulars and the acreages quoted are strictly for identification and guidance only. The boundaries shown on the plans in these particulars have been prepared by reference to digital Ordnance Survey data.

The plans are published for illustrative purposes only and although they are believed to be correct their accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

Interested parties are reminded that the property is sold in accordance with the owners Land Registry Title plan/s, and they must satisfy themselves as to the boundaries and the quantity of land being purchased. Any error or mistake shall not annul the sale or entitle any party to compensation thereof.

Our Ref: AEA240002