A huge farm in the south of Wiltshire has hit the market with a price tag just shy of £17 million.
A vast farm at Upton Lovell, near Warminster, has been listed with an eye-watering price tag of £16,950,000. The property is being marketed by estates and farm agency Strutt & Parker.
The property comes with 925 acres of arable land and 55 acres of woodland, as well as four “substantial” detached houses, and three bungalows.
The farm’s more technical elements also include around 145,000 square feet of mostly steel frame farm buildings; a DeLaval 32-point rotary parlour currently milking up to 400 cows; a lucrative Arla milk contract; modern slurry separation, storage and handling facility; and grain storage for approx. 2,000 tonnes and a Svegma continuous flow dryer.
The listing adds that the land includes valleys hidden from public view which “create for a formidable pheasant and partridge shoot.”
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The listing continues: “Manor and Auckland Farms are a superb example of a commercial mixed farm that brings together large-scale downland arable farming with a closed herd of Holstien Friesians, to produce milk sold through a lucrative Arla contract.
“The farming base is at Manor Farm located north of Upton Lovell village with a designated access through traffic lights from the A36.
“Manor Farm was bought by the vendors in 1990, the same year as Auckland Farm, which together with some additional land at Knook (bought in 2000) make up the component parts of the farm.
The vendors have invested and developed the farm vastly since the business was founded; at Manor Farm they have built two farmhouses and three bungalows, redeveloped and extended the farm buildings and invested in the land, woodland and tracks.
“At Auckland Farm the farmhouse has been extended, they have built another dwelling (49A Chitterne Road) and added buildings and tracks to create a superb residential farm that neatly supports the main unit.
“Whilst the current owners operate a successful dairy and arable operation from the farm, the asset also lends itself to a less intensive uses such as through converting the vast range of buildings for alternative uses (e.g. for storage or workshop uses).”
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