LOT 4 - Blandys Farm, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 0DD (Kintbury Holt Estate)

LOT 4 – Blandys Farm (Kintbury Holt Estate)

Blandys Farm comprises one of the Estate’s two dairy units together with approximately 191 acres and a bungalow. The dairy unit is purposely designed to run a 220 cow low cost milk from grass autumn calving system requiring one fulltime person and a relief milker. Cattle are fed on a self-feed silage face. The farm is profitable and available on a ‘lock, stock and barrel’ basis. The farm accounts will be available to parties interested in buying the business at an appropriate stage.

BLANDYS BUNGALOW
A detached dwelling with four bedrooms. The accommodation is arranged over the ground floor, extending to approximately 1,371 sq ft.

Blandys bungalow is accessed via the main entrance drive and has a garage and private gardens to the front and rear. The bungalow is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition and Section 106 agreement preventing it being sold away from this block of land. The bungalow must be occupied by someone currently or historically employed in agriculture. Subject to obtaining the necessary consents, there may be potential to vary these restrictions.

BLANDYS FARM BUILDINGS
This extensive range of buildings are home to a commercial 200 cow dairy herd and therefore geared towards dairy cows and followers. Blandys Farm provides all the elements to form a versatile agricultural unit or the potential for alternative farming
enterprises.

Overall, the buildings comprise:

A - Timber Framed Barn
B - General Store
C - Parlour
D - Cow Kennels
E - Cow Kennels
F - Slurry Pit
G - Concrete Silage Clamp
H - Concrete Silage Clamp

BLANDYS FARMLAND
The land is arranged in three blocks along Holt Road, Blandys Hill and Forbury Lane. There are numerous gateways onto the public highway and good internal farm tracks provide access to all fields. A productive long-term Perennial Ryegrass Ley has been well established, and the grassland has been used for the grazing of cattle, or silage production, for many years. Overall, extending to over 191 acres the farmland is summarised as follows:

Arable: 10.76 acres (4.35 hectares)
Intensive Grassland: 178.43 acres (72.21 hectares)
Woodland 2.59 acres: (1.05 hectares)
Total 191.78 acres (77.61 hectares)

Lot 4 – Blandys Farm forms part of Kintbury Holt Estate which comprises of three farmsteads which previously formed part of The Craven Estate and is now offered for sale having been farmed as a dairy enterprise by the Vendors for over 60 years.

The farms sit within glorious open countryside and comprise of large open arable and intensive grassland fields with high quality mixed age native broadleaved woodland. The land is classified as mainly Grade 3, with some Grade 4, and the soil described as predominately slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soils. There is an element of freely draining slightly acid but base-rich soils to the north. Numerous gateways onto the public highways and good internal farm tracks provide access to all fields.

Further details on the soil descriptions and cropping history can be found in the online Data Room.