Peak District farm in secluded setting

A Peak District hill farm launches this week offering about 187 acres, a traditional but recent farmhouse and a range of buildings.

Dingers Hollow Farm at Wildboarclough near Macclesfield, Cheshire, is a receivership sale. The farm sits mainly in a ring fence, with permanent in-bye pasture and moorland. The lower fields are dry-stone walled while further in-bye pasture to the east of the main block of land has its own general purpose buildings and handling yard.

The four-bedroom stone farmhouse built in 1982 carries an agricultural occupancy restriction and needs some refurbishment.

A compact range of traditional and modern general purpose buildings sits with the farmhouse. These are stone or steel portal and block-built, with two traditional barns, two general purpose stock sheds and a general purpose building and store.

The traditional buildings have been partially converted to give workshop space and storage, while some of the modern buildings need to be completed.

Dingers Hollow is in the South West Peak Environmentally Sensitive Area Scheme, which expires on 30 April 2013. After this the farm could be eligible for the Uplands Entry Level Stewardship Scheme.

Sporting rights are included in the £975,000 guide price but single farm payments are not included. (Savills 01952 239 500; Frank Marshall 01625 861 122)