Farmland market slowly picks up pace

The pace of launches onto the farm market is starting to pick up as spring begins.

Batcheller Monkhouse has brought a 105-acre block of Grade 3 land to the market at Plumpton Green, West Sussex.

This relatively level land at South Riddens Farm is split into four fields by mature hedging and trees, and can be accessed by a right of way over adjacent farmland.

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Land at South Riddens Farm © Batcheller Monkhouse

The land is currently farmed on a tenancy agreements ending in August 2026, and Batcheller has set the property at a guide price of £975,000.

Poultry in Norfolk

Woodlands Farm © Ehouse Jamie Read

New to market is Woodlands Farm, a modern poultry unit set on 44 acres of grassland and woodland at Needham, near Harleston, Norfolk. 

A free-range poultry business, with 16,000 birds, operates from a steel-framed Davidson poultry shed, but selling agent Strutt & Parker says the building would be well suited to other poultry enterprises too.

Mounted on the roof is a 50kW photovoltaic solar array.

This investment has reduced energy consumption and created additional income. Over the past three years it has generated about £7,000/year through exports to the grid.

The farm also has a modern storage building.

The Grade 3 clay loam land is suitable for cereals and grass. It is currently grazed by sheep and used for producing hay or silage. A three-bed bungalow provides residential accommodation.

Woodlands Farm is on the market at a guide price £1.675m

West Wales stock holding

Lower End Town Farm © Savills

Savills and JJ Morris are jointly marketing a 177-acre livestock farm, with buyers sought for the whole or in four lots.

Lower End Town Farm, on the Pembrokeshire-Carmarthenshire border at Lampeter Velfrey, has land well suited to grazing and arable cropping.

Modern buildings include a cattle shed, a multipurpose shed and a pole barn. Traditional outbuildings have the potential for conversion, subject to planning consent.

The 17th century four-bedroom farmhouse was fully renovated in the 1990s. It has a three-bedroom annexe which could be used as a principal residence or for letting.

A guide price of £1.95m has been set for the whole. 

Five-year farm business tenancy in Northumberland

Burn Tongues Farm © GSC Grays

A tender has opened for a five-year farm business tenancy (FBT) on a well-equipped 230-acre livestock farm in Northumberland.

Burn Tongues Farm, an upland holding in Allendale, has heavy clay soils with a land type ranging from good-quality improved meadow to rough grazing.

Tom Richardson, associate rural director at marketing agent GSC Grays, says about 70 acres of this is suitable for mowing.

There has been an annual overseeding programme on several meadows and the new tenant would need to continue with this, overseeding at least 10 acres a year.

Water supply in the fields comes from natural sources and spring-fed troughs.

Existing Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier and Sustainable Farming Incentive agreements are to remain in the landowner’s name.

Burn Tongues Farm historically carried suckler cows and breeding ewes.

There is an extensive range of modern buildings, including cubicle housing for 80 cows, and two clamps with capacity for 2,500t of silage.

“The buildings provide a great base to accommodate cattle and sheep, with part of the existing handling facilities being made available to the incomer,’’ says Tom.

A guide annual rent of £25,000 has been given and tenders must be submitted by 12pm on 19 March 2025.