Reference
Z449/1/13
Title
Sale catalogue for Herne Manor Farm, Toddington
Date free text
Mar 1995
Production date
From: 1995 To: 1995
Scope and Content
Sale catalogue for Herne Manor Farms, Toddington
- agents: Gillingtons of Woodland House, Elms Farm, Freckenham [Suffolk] and Bodwells of Trumpington Road, Cambridge;
- solicitors: Wilde Sharp of 1 Fleet Street, London;
- Lot 1: Herne Manor, Herne Grange, Lodge and Happy Land Farms comprising 1,461.68 acres;
- Herne Manor Farmhouse "lies near the centre of the holding adjacent to Park Road . The house…is listed Grade II and lies adjacent to Herne Manor Farm buildings on elevated ground with extensive views south and east. The property has been enlarged over the years, is part timber framed and part brick under a tiled roof: ground floor: entrance hall; drawing room (23 feet by 17 feet 2 inches); dining room (19 feet 3 inches by 12 feet 10 inches); cloakroom; kitchen (15 feet 10 inches by 11 feet 10 inches); conservatory (14 feet 3 inches by 11 feet); utility room; rear lobby; play room (13 feet by 12 feet); first floor: four bedrooms; landing; bathroom; wc; outside: ornamental garden; vegetable garden; duck pond; outside wc;
- Herne Manor Farm buildings: garage block and chemical store; storage barn; three grain stores; weighbridge; dryer house; workshop; two grain silos; implement shed; diesel tank; water tank;
- Lodge Farmhouse: "situated adjacent to the farmyard and has extensive views over the land included in the sale. the house is of brick construction under a tile roof and has been divided into two units"; No.1: ground floor living room. kitchen, cellar, wc, utility room; first floor landing, bathroom, three bedrooms; No.2 ground floor: entrance hall, utility room, kitchen, living room, first floor landing, bathroom, wc, three bedrooms; second floor store room/bedroom;
- Lodge Farm Bungalow: "has not been inspected internally";
- Lodge Farm buildings: garage block; single garage; store; feed store; rearing house; stables; fertiliser tank; incubation shed; rearing runs;
- Herne Grange Farmhouse: two cottages each with entrance porch, entrance hall, living room, three bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom and No.1 having, additionally, a utility room;
- Herne Grange Farm buildings: cattle shed; two implement stores; former pig house; clay pigeon shooting tower;
- Lot 2 Cowbridge Farm comprising 201.81 acres;
- Lot 3: Redhills Farm comprising 225.92 acres;
- Lot 4: accommodation land comprising 49.69 acres north of Toddington village;
- Lot 5: accommodation land of 24.90 acres west of Herne Manor with access to Park Road;
- details of land included comprise: National Grid number; arable acreage including tracks; grassland acreage including tracks; building area including tracks; woodland/water/scrub/cover acreage; total acreages - the whole sale comprising 1,789.79 acres of arable, 60.77 acres of grassland, 12.42 acres of buildings, 101.02 acres of woodland etc, for a total of 1,964 acres;
- photographs [colour]: farm buildings; Lodge Farmhouse exterior; Herne Manor Farmhouse exterior; Shooting Lake; Herne Grange Cottages exterior; views of countryside;
- site location map;
- site layout plan;
- no floor plans;
- Lot 1 £2,400,000; Lot 2 £310,000; Lot 3 £315,000; Lot 4 £74,000; Lot 5 £40,000; Total: £3,139,000
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