Land for sale: 5 fantastic opportunities
The lay of the land.
Sutherland, offers over £850,000 Gualin Estate, Durness 6,239 acres, salmon and sea-trout fishing, stalking hill ground, five-bedroom lodge, three-bedroom house, two/three-bedroom flat A one-third share of a spectacular Highland estate, including 7½ miles of double-bank fishing on the River Dionard and access to one of Scotland’s most prolific sea-trout lochs, plus a keeper’s house, sporting lodge and other estate buildings, including a fish room, deer larder, garaging, kennels and gillie’s flat. Savills (0131–291 0073)
Perthshire, offers over £8.625 million for the whole (or in three lots from £425,000 each)
Moness Forest estate 3,262 acres, including 2,199 acres of mid-rotation Sitka-spruce commercial forestry Substantial Highland estate in a well-established timber-production region, which also features exceptional hill ground with deer stalking and grouse and planning consent for a wind-farm development of up to 21MW Bidwells (01738 630 666) and John Clegg & Co (0131–229 8800)
Dorset, in excess of £3 million
Manor Farm, Cattistock A plot of 319 acres of lime-rich pasture and woodland located in an AONB, with two agricultural buildings and planning consent for a four-bedroom farmhouse and ‘potential for a challenging shoot, which is currently not exercised’ Strutt & Parker (01722 344 010)
North Yorkshire, £5.5 million
Broomfield Farm, Helperby Productive arable farmland in the Vale of York, with 690 acres, a pair of semi-detached cottages and a range of traditional buildings Carter Jonas (01423 582 833)
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Somerset, £3.75 million
Stoke Farm, Charlton Musgrove, near Bruton The views from Stoke Farm take in the 18th-century folly King Alfred’s Tower, said to have straddled the boundaries of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. There are 219 ring-fenced acres, modern farm buildings, two farm cottages and planning permission for a five-bedroom farmhouse Savills (01722 426 800)
Annunciata is director of contemporary art gallery TIN MAN ART and an award-winning journalist specialising in art, culture and property. Previously, she was Country Life’s News & Property Editor. Before that, she worked at The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, researched for a historical biographer and co-founded a literary, art and music festival in Oxfordshire. Lancashire-born, she lives in Hampshire with a husband, two daughters and a mischievous pug.
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