New to market – farms from the South Downs to the Highlands

The first sizeable commercial South Downs arable farm to come to the market for some time has almost 500 acres and a recently refurbished farmhouse.

Golf Farm at Devil’s Dyke sits just four miles from the centre of Brighton, with an extensive range of buildings and large, easily worked fields.

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On the market with Batcheller Monkhouse, it is being promoted with vineyard and other alternative use potential.

The Grade 3 land is free-draining medium to light loam over chalk and is well fenced and gated, with good internal tracks.

“This is a retirement sale after the family have farmed here for about 40 years,” said Russell Parkes, of Batcheller Monkhouse.

“About 450 acres of the land is arable, with the remainder in permanent pasture and a wooded escarpment.”

As well as the high-specification four-bedroom farmhouse there is a two-bedroom cabin.

The 3,350 sq m of buildings includes two workshops, two grain stores and silos, an open barn, a single-bay machinery store, cattle pens, spray store and straw barn.

Offers above £8m are sought for Golf Farm.

Highland livestock contrast

Garbeg Farm © Galbraith

A Highland livestock farm at Drumnadrochit near Inverness offers a complete contrast.

Garbeg Farm lies close to Loch Ness and has 574 acres, two traditional cottages in need of full renovation, and a range of buildings in a mixed state of repair.

There is both non-crofted and owner-occupied croft land, offering potential for a variety of uses, said selling agent Galbraith, which has set a guide price of £1.1m.  

The land includes hill ground, ploughable permanent pasture, rough grazing and woodland. It is mainly classified as Grade 5.2 with some Grade 5.1 and 4.2 land.

The holding is said to offer privacy, with scenic views, sporting and natural capital potential.

Neighbouring Garbeg, the same agent has a 1,117-acre block of land and woodland on the market at offers above £1.045m.

This is bare land and established pinewoods, offering a future income stream through thinning or felling and the opportunity to restructure.

The bare land has planting potential alongside natural capital and amenity value.

North York Moors farm in lots

Box Tree Farm © Vue3sixty

Box Tree Farm at Suffield in North Yorkshire sits on the edge of the North York Moors National Park to the west of Scarborough.

This is new to the market and has just over 49 acres of mainly arable land with some permanent grass. It has been lotted seven ways with an overall guide of offers above £1.1m.

The farm has a good range of traditional and modern buildings, with the main steel portal shed used as a workshop.

With the farmhouse and workshop in lot 1 (£545,000 guide) are two small paddocks, while the six land lots range from 2.75 acres to 17.4 acres.

“Our intention is to attract lots of non-farming buyers, hence the small lots focused at the lifestyle, equestrian, smallholder or self-builder market,” said Stewart Hamilton, a partner at selling agent George F White.