5 Bed Detached House, Planning Permission, Bridport, DT6 5PA £1,795,000

Outside - The farmstead is approached over a long driveway, flanked by fields, which leads up to the farmhouse. The low maintenance gardens are largely laid to lawn with a range of mature shrubs. The rear drive continues down, past the access to the farmyard to rejoin the public highway. To the rear of the farmhouse are:
1. Garden/Domestic Stores brick built with Lean-to Garage/Workshop at rear (12.94m x 5.56m)
2. L shaped Stable Block (10.9m x 4.8m & 7.6m x 3.6m) housing three looseboxes, foaling box and a feed store with a concrete yard.
The gently sloping west and south facing pastureland is offered in good heart and well fenced for livestock or equestrian purposes, providing utility and protection.

Lot Two - Barn With Planning Permission For Conver - North of the farmstead, well shielded from the farmhouse, with separate access from the rear farm drive, is a lower yard. There are a range of farm buildings set around extensive concrete yards. The attractive, traditional Hamstone Barn (12.03m x 6.04m) with tiled roof has planning permission to convert into a double storey 3-bedroom dwelling. There are additional buildings including:
1. Steel framed and block former Milking Parlour with Leanto Dairy (22.5m x 13.9m)
2. Farm Building (21.40m x 6.38m) steel framed, 4 bay, housing 5 loose boxes
3. General Purpose Farm Building (21.4m x 18.9m) concrete portal and block (former cubicle house)
4. Dilapidated Former Milking Parlour (8.6m x 10.3m maximum) steel framed
To the north of the yard with access from the rear farm drive is 12.26 acres of level or gently sloping pastureland, with a pretty stream running through.

Services - Lot One: Main electricity. Main water. Private drainage. Fibre broadband.
Lot Two: Main electricity. A right to connect to main water, (if sold separately) will be granted over Lot One.

Tenure - Freehold with vacant possession upon completion.

Planning - Planning permission has been granted for conversion of barn to a 3-bedroom dwelling, which will require two agricultural barns to be demolished and a detached bat feeding roost building
to be erected. (West Dorset District Council Planning Ref: P/FUL/2022/06940 Decision date 7 February 2023).

Fencing Obligation - If sold in lots the purchasers of Lots 1 and 2 will equally share the cost of erecting and maintaining thereafter a new stock proof fence between the two Lots. The boundary will be pegged for identification purposes.

Sporting - All rights are understood to be owned and included in the sale. Hunting with The Seavington Foxhounds. Racing at Taunton or Wincanton. Golf at Bridport. Sailing on the coast at West Bay or Portland.

Rights Of Way - Two public footpaths cross the farm.

Education - Primary schooling at Marshwood. Good State secondary schools at The Woodroffe School and the excellent Colyton Grammar School. Independent Schools in the area include Perrott Hill, Sherborne, Millfield and Milton Abbey.

Local Authority - West Dorset District Council. Tel: Council Tax Band: G

Designations - Gerrards Farm is located in the Dorset National Landscape (AONB). The farm is not located in a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) and has no Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).