£10m farming estate between Telford and Newport up for sale

The 1,278-acre Bridge and Brockton Estate comprises two independent let farms occupied on separate tenancies on full repairing and insuring terms.

Collectively the estate combines productive agricultural land, farmhouses, cottages and extensive ranges of farm buildings with an annual rent of £114,538.

The estate is now for sale as a whole or in two lots through Savills. The combined guide price for the estate as a whole total is £10 million. Lot one is offered at a guide of £6.5 million and Lot two offered for £3.5 million.

Alex Lawson, director at Savills farms and estates, said: “Both farms are in excellent condition and fully equipped.

"It is rare for an investment property of this scale to come onto the market in Shropshire and we expect a wide range of interest in the estate as a whole and in the individual lots.”

Brockton Manor farmhouse is a Grade II listed 19th century, seven-bedroom, three storey red brick manor house. The farm also has a semi-detached cottage with two bedrooms and a pair of semi-detached three bedroom cottages.

There is a range of modern and traditional farm buildings with potential for alternative use, subject to the necessary planning permission and four separate access points onto the public highway.

The 809 acres of farmland are predominantly classified as grade two with about 20 per cent being grade three and most of it is irrigated.

The majority is suitable for potato cropping and historically the land has supported a wide range of cereals, legumes and root crops. The current rotation includes peas, potatoes, winter oilseed rape and winter wheat with the remaining land designated as amenity and environmental.

In 1985 a borehole was installed by the tenants and the farmland benefits from three abstraction licences for the purposes of spray irrigation, which are not time limited. There is also a two million gallon reservoir.

The second lot is centred on Bridge Farmhouse, a two storey red brick dwelling with six bedrooms. The farm also has two detached cottages with three bedrooms each.

There is a range of traditional and modern farm buildings and outbuildings including some former dairy buildings; again there is potential for alternative uses subject to the necessary planning permission.

The farmland is predominately classified grades two and three, irrigated arable land and includes three principle soil types suitable for cereals, sugar beet, potatoes and field vegetables with some areas of grassland.

A reservoir holds 10 million gallons and the farm has a ring main irrigation system and there is an abstraction licence held by the tenant. There is a small acreage of woodland.