Description
Buckholt Farm is a pretty grassland farm, which has been within the same family ownership for fifty years. The farm extends to about 345 acres in total with a principal farmhouse, equestrian facilities, and a range of traditional and modern farm buildings.
With an abundance of history, the farm today retains a wealth of character and is used for the family's agricultural enterprise and a small livery business but with a substantial amount of woodland and some traditional marshland grazing, it also offers Natural Capital and sporting opportunities.
Buckholt Farm is being offered for sale as a whole or in four lots
LOT 1:
Buckholt Farmhouse, traditional buildings and about 58.96 acres. Buckholt Farmhouse dates back to the late 16th century and is an extremely handsome farmhouse which has retained an immense character from that period. The farmhouse is now in need of complete renovation
but has generously proportioned rooms, good ceiling heights for its age and a number classical period features including; stone mullion windows, exposed beams and an impressive inglenook fireplace within the original kitchen / scullery.
The accommodation of about 4,144 sq ft is arranged over three floors and currently comprises two reception rooms, a kitchen, scullery, six bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Outside, the immediate gardens extend to the front and side of the farmhouse. The garden to the western elevation was once a traditional walled kitchen garden. To the east of the farmhouse is a large parking area and a brick and tile barn, once used as garaging and stabling. To the north west is a further traditional brick built building, historically a row of pigsties.
The land lies primarily to the north and west of the farmhouse and provides an attractive backdrop, affording great protection and amenity to the property.
In total the land extends to about 54 acres and is a mixture of pasture and woodland with several small ponds.
LOT 2:
Stable yard and former shoot lodge with about 15.16 acres.
The stable yard (labelled 2 on the block plan) is arranged around 3 sides of a concrete yard. On the south side there a four external loose boxes and the building to the north houses four internal loddon stables. The main barn on the western side comprises additional internal stables with a
lean-to which is used as a tack room and feedstore.
There is a further brick and tile store (labelled 3 on the block plan) which was used as a shoot lodge, when the syndicate shoot was running and a sand school to the west of the stable yard.
The buildings offer potential (subject to necessary consents) for alternative uses.
The land lies to the north and west of the buildings and is predominantly pasture, extending to circa 13.21 acres.
LOT 3:
Circa 37.52 acres of predominantly pasture.
A parcel of predominantly pasture with about 3.4 acres of woodland.
LOT 4:
Farmland and Farm Buildings - About 232.90 acres.
A block of rolling farmland, extending to approximately 233 acres of predominantly pasture interspersed with woodland, streams, several ponds and some water meadows to the east of the farm running south to the boundary with the Hastings and Bexhill Bypass.
The land is classified as Grade 3 on the Agricultural Land Classification and for several years was managed under an organic Countryside Stewardship Scheme but the vendors withdrew from this option and the land is now farmed conventionally.
The woodland extends to 101.8 acres and comprises Cole Wood to the south, Cockerels Wood to the west, Great Henniker Wood in the centre and Hanging Wood to the east. These are traditional chestnut and hornbeam woodlands interspersed with oak and some tree planting has taken place over the last 20 years under a Woodland Grant Scheme. Up until 2022, there was a syndicate shoot on the farm.
The farmyard lies to the north of the land and comprises and range of modern steel-framed buildings.
Guide Prices:
Lot 1- Farmhouse, traditional buildings and circa 58.96 acres: £875,000
Lot 2- Buckholt Stable Yard and circa £15.16 acres: £325,000
Lot 3- Land to the north of Buckholt Drive, approx 37.52 acres: £375,000
Lot 4- Buckholt Farmland and buildings approx 232.9 acres: £1,375,000
As A Whole: £2,950,000