Border homes on the market
Home hunters seeking a small farm with land in beautiful countryside on the Powys-Shropshire border are being urged to check out two properties, which are to be sold by public auction.
Home hunters seeking a small farm with land in beautiful countryside on the Powys-Shropshire border are being urged to check out two properties, which are to be sold by public auction later this month.
Shrewsbury-based Halls auctioneers are selling Pentre Willey, Churchstoke and Stone House Farm, Prolley Moor, Wentnor, Bishop's Castle at the Three Tuns public house in Bishop's Castle on Tuesday, May 22, at 6pm.
Pentre Willey is an attractive brick and stone, three bedroomed farmhouse, which has potential to be extended by incorporating an adjoining store shed and loft. The farmhouse, which was purchased by the late John Fletcher in 1994 for his retirement, has not been modernised for many years.
The ground-floor accommodation comprises a kitchen with a Mistral oil-fired central heating boiler, pantry, living room with a stone fireplace and exposed beams, hall and sitting room with a woodburning stove. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bathroom.
Directly opposite the house is a traditional brick and half-timbered farm building, which has potential for conversion into additional accommodation, subject to planning permission.
The property, which has extensive views over Corndon Hill, Roundton Hill and the Shropshire-Wales borderland, includes nearly 17 acres of undulating, fertile pastureland with a good natural water supply.
The property has a guide price of £250,000.
The buyer will also have an option to purchase an adjacent derelict stone cottage with three-quarters of an acre of land for £40,000.
Stone House Farm is a small, stone farmhouse in need of modernisation and improvement with potential for extension into a larger family house, subject to planning permission.
The accommodation comprises an entrance porch and hall, bathroom, sitting room and a single-storey extension with a kitchen and two first-floor bedrooms.
Attached to the farmhouse are two cow houses and a dairy and adjacent farmbuildings include a barn with a lean-to store shed and a large portal-framed cattle shed with a lean-to feed passage.
The property, which comes with nearly 15 acres of productive pastureland served by natural water supplies, is being sold on behalf of the executors of the late Robert Heath, whose family owned the farm for many years.
Stone House Farm enjoys a private location in an area of outstanding natural beauty, one and half miles from the village of Wentnor and within half a mile of the Long Mynd hill range, which is renowned for its extensive bridleways and footpaths.
Guide price for the property is £220,000 to £250,000.
* Viewing is by appointment with Halls' Welsh Bridge office in Shrewsbury on 01743 284777 or the company's Bishop's Castle office on 01588 638755.
