Shropshire farm on market with £1 million price tag

Bank Farm at Sodylt, near Ellesmere, which is on the market with agents Halls as a whole or in four separate lots, includes a period farmhouse, a range of farm buildings and surrounding 66-acres of farmland.

Lot one, comprising the farmhouse, domestic outbuildings and 8.3 acres of land, has a guide price of £450,000.

Lot two, comprising the farm buildings and around five and a half acres of land, is marketed at £195,000 and the remaining two lots, comprising 24.5 and 27.8 acres of land, are on offer at £175,000 and £250,000 respectively.

Allen Gittins, from Halls, said: “The attractive farmhouse offers spacious and versatile accommodation of great character, retaining numerous original features, including a cheese press, concealed bread oven in the kitchen, old slate salting slab in the larder and concealed timbers in certain rooms.

“The property, which offers great potential for modernisation and improvement, has an entrance hall, lounge, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, larder, pantry, access to cellars, rear entrance lobby, separate WC and storeroom on the ground floor with five bedrooms and a family bathroom upstairs. Outside, there are excellent surrounding gardens, comprising lawns and an orchard, to the rear of which are the former pig cotes, a versatile multi-purpose shed and more than eight acres of land.

“Enjoying an unspoilt rural location, the farm is convenient to the nearby village of Overton-on-Dee, which has good local amenities and the well known larger towns of Ellesmere and Oswestry are within seven miles.”

The farm buildings, situated a short distance from the farmhouse, comprise a traditional range with a lean-to loose housing shed with more modern buildings adjacent.

There is machinery storage sheds, engine house, the old dairy, four-bay Dutch barn, multi-purpose shed and four-bay loose housing shed.

The land, a major feature of the property, lies principally in three main parcels, divided by council maintained roads and country lanes.

The land includes permanent pasture and around five acres of woodland. Some fields may be suitable for arable production. For details call 01691 622602.