A well-equipped expansive arable and grass farm with a farmhouse and annexe accommodation, as well as a range of farm buildings and fishing lakes, located within the High Weald Natural Landscape with far reaching views to the coast has come to the market with Batcheller Monkhouse.
Birchen Knoll Farm and adjoining land is a commercial mixed farm that has been farmed as a whole and extends to approximately 953.97 acres. The farm consists of suitable farmhouse accommodation with an adjoining annexe and two mobile homes located in the main farmyard. The land is mainly arable with 792.48 acres of grade 2 and 3 land. In addition, there are small areas of permanent pasture (73.21 acres) and 78.78 acres of woodland.
This provides a good-sized holding that will give any purchaser a sustainable sized farming unit with the potential to modernise the farming and diversify into alternative uses.
Lot 1: Birchen Knoll Farm
Birchen Knoll Farm is an equipped former mixed farm extending to 184.55 acres. The property consists of a three bedroom farmhouse with a two bedroom annexe, two mobile homes and approximately 35,569 sq ft of farm buildings.
Birchen Knoll farmhouse and annexe was formerly a traditional brick, farm worker’s cottage. It has been extended to form 2,587 sq ft of accommodation over two floors. The annexe adjoins the main farmhouse and provides useful secondary accommodation. The house has recently undergone some modernisation and provides a practical living space suitable for a working farm.
The land at Birchen Knoll Farm includes 102.73 acres of temporary grass leys,
59.70 acres permanent of pasture and
17.52 acres of woodland.
Much of the topography of the temporary grassland is gently rolling and was formerly used for arable production. This land has now been included in a Countryside Stewardship Mid-Tier agreement, meaning the land is now managed as legume and herb-rich swards. It has been used for the grazing of livestock and the making of forage.
Lot 2: Land at Church Farm, Guestling
The land at Church Farm is a large block of predominately arable land. There is approximately 289.78 acres of arable land, 56.61 acres of woodland, consisting predominately of the ancient woodland known as Kitchen Wood, and 13.51 acres of permanent grassland.
The land has predominantly been used for conventional arable farming and benefits from large, easily-worked field parcels. More lately the land has been entered into a Mid-Tier agreement benefitting from the two-year legume fallow option.
Lot 3: Land at Cadborough, Rye
The land at Cadborough extends to approximately 315.26 acres and is a large block of arable land located on the coastal flats to the west of Rye Harbour. The land has been used for conventional arable farming and maize production.
The land is intersected by the Hastings to Rye railway line, and there is a gated farm crossing providing access to the north of the railway with clear visibility down the line.
Lot 4: Land at Downoak Farm, Westfield
The land at Downoak Farm consists of a ringfenced, single block of arable land with small woodland shaws. In total the land consists of 89.35 acres of which there is 84.7 acres of arable land and 4.65 acres woodland, ponds and track.
All of the land has been used for conventional arable farming, growing predominantly combinable crops.
Lot 5: Buildings at Downoak Farm, Westfield
The buildings at Downoak Farm consist of two farm buildings, most of which have now been redeveloped for residential or commercial uses. The site measures 0.57 acre and the buildings provide 4,800 sq ft of floor space.
The guide price as a whole is £10,340,000 or is available in lots:
- Lot 1 – £2,900,000
- Lot 2 – £3,150,000
- Lot 3 – £3,300,000
- Lot 4 – £790,000
- Lot 5 – £200,000.
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