Reference
Z449/1/6
Title
Sale catalogue of Brogborough Manor Farm
Date free text
Mar 1992
Production date
From: 1987 To: 1992
Scope and Content
Sale catalogue of Brogborough Manor Farm.
- agents: Knight Frank & Rutley International of 20 Hanover Square, London and Savills of 24 Hills Road, Cambridge;
- description: "Brogborough Manor Farm is a superbly located 318 acre commercial farm with enormous residential and sporting appeal. It occupies an elevated but sheltered situation on the western edge of a rise overlooking Marston valley with views towards Aspley Heath beyond…The manor house itself is an elegant and deceptively substantial 17th Century house standing in delightful lakeside gardens at the end of a ½ mile long drive. The traditional farm buildings, in addition to providing an attractive backdrop to the house, have exciting potential for conversion and one building in particular would, subject to planning consent, form a suitable staff or guest cottage. The modern farm buildings are mostly of multi-purpose design and provide great scope for diversification into an equestrian centre with indoor facilities or commercial use subject to planning consent. Whilst the farm has been developed into a sound commercial unit, the vendors have introduced a pro-active wildlife conservation scheme to demonstrate how conservation can be compatible with modern farming. Over 3,000 trees have been planted, several duck ponds excavated and extensive hedgerow replanting carried out. The farm was joint runner-up in the 1987 Country Life Farming and Wildlife Award. As a result, the well laid out copses and spinneys, when combined with strategically placed game crops and the farm's natural undulations, provide several enjoyable days pheasant shooting and duck flighting. The farm is also renowned for its highly successful cattle enterprise with a nationally important herd of South Devons";
- layout: ground floor: entrance hall (15 feet 3 inches by 5 feet 6 inches); inner hall (12 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 6 inches); S and W sitting room (19 feet 6 inches by 17 feet 9 inches); E study (14 feet by 12 feet 9 inches); S and E dining room (16 feet 9 inches by 15 feet 9 inches); rear hall; wine cellar; W kitchen (15 feet 3 inches by 15 feet); N pantry/utility room (29 feet by 9 feet); cloakroom; E office (12 feet 6 inches by 10 feet);
- layout: first floor: four bedrooms; dressing room; lobby; two bathrooms;
- layout: second floor: five attic rooms;
- outbuildings: double garage; oil tank shed; tool shed; summerhouse;
- pair of semi-detached cottages (both excluded from the sale);
- farm buildings block 1: Dutch barn and lean-to; double garage; workshop/stores; former cowshed and barn; machinery shed; open fronted machinery shed; lean-to; grain dryer building; grain bins;
- farm buildings block 2: hay barn with lean-to hay barn/cattle shed; Dutch barn with lean-to; hay store/general purpose store;
- farm buildings block 3: two general purpose building/cattle sheds;
- 318 acres of which 53 was grass and 12 woodland, the remainder arable;
- all arable land sown with winter wheat; two pedigree cattle herds of 190 head, one of South Devons the other Simmentals; woodland managed to encourage the breeding of kestrels, sparrow hawks, woodpeckers and owls; shoots run; Woodland Trust planned to plant 200 acres of trees adjoining the farm;
- photographs [colour]: exterior of Manor House; exterior of cottages; traditional farm buildings; farmland looking towards Ridgmont and Husborne Crawley;
- site location map;
- site layout plan of farmland;
- plan of farm buildings;
- price: £750,000
Level of description
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