Crippings Farm, Leaden Roding, Essex, CM1 4PZ

A rare opportunity to acquire an attractive and privately situated ring fenced residential arable farm, ideally located on the edge of the village of Leaden Roding, Essex.

Lot 1 - Crippings Farmhouse and Traditional Farm Buildings - Guide Price £650,000
Lot 2 - Ransomes House and Land - approx. 6.15 acres (2.49 ha) - Guide Price £300,000
Lot 3 - Atcost Farm Building and Land - approx. 0.86 acres (0.35 ha) - Guide Price £150,000
Lot 4 - Arable Land at Crippings Farm - approx. 109.19 acres (44.18 ha) - Guide Price £1,050,000

In all, about 120.19 acres (48.64 hectares)

Offers in the region of £2,150,000

The property is offered for sale by Private Treaty as a whole or in up to four lots.

Property Summary

Crippings Farm extends to about 120.19 acres (48.64 hectares) and comprises a ring-fenced residential arable farm on the edge of Leaden Roding, Essex, having been in the same family ownership for many years. The holding includes a Grade II Listed four-bedroom farmhouse, a secondary dwelling, productive Grade 2 arable land and a range of traditional farm buildings with development potential, subject to obtaining the necessary planning consents

LOT 1 - Crippings Farmhouse and Traditional Farm Buildings

About 3.99 acres (1.61 hectares)

Guide Price £650,0000

About 3.99 acres (1.61 ha)

Crippings Farmhouse is a Grade II Listed four-bedroom detached property of considerable character, with parts dating from the 17th and early 19th centuries. The house is of timber frame construction beneath a traditional peg tile roof, arranged over three storeys and occupying a central position within the main farmyard.

The property provides well-proportioned family accommodation retaining a wealth of period features throughout. The ground floor comprises a kitchen, boot room, utility room, office, WC, old dairy with adjacent pantry and cellar, a dining room with inglenook fireplace and a sitting room. The first floor offers three bedrooms and a family bathroom, with a fourth bedroom and playroom on the second floor.

Outside, the farmhouse sits within established gardens to all sides, principally laid to lawn and framed by mature trees and hedging, with a patio area to the front. A particular feature of the property is the partial moat to the rear, with a large pond to the east adjoining the access track to the farmyard. A single garage is situated to the front of the property.

The property is now in need of repair and refurbishment throughout, presenting an incoming purchaser with an excellent opportunity for improvement and modernisation, subject to obtaining the necessary listed building consents.

Water - mains
Drainage - private (septic tank)
Heating / Hot Water - oil fired central heating
Council Tax - Band E
EPC - F

Lot 1 (continued) Traditional Farm Buildings

A range of traditional farm buildings lies immediately to the north of Crippings Farmhouse. The buildings are arranged around the farmyard and offer potential for alternative uses, subject to planning.

These are described below:

Building 1 - Old Granary (4m x 4m): Timber frame with weatherboarded cladding beneath a slate tile roof, raised clear of the ground on four red brick corner supports in the traditional manner.
Buildings 1a-1d - Grain Silos: A row of four grain silos providing a combined storage capacity of approximately 270 tonnes, comprising one silo of 90 tonnes and three of 60 tonnes each.
Building 2 - Grain Drying Barn (5m x 6m): Timber frame on a brick plinth with weatherboarded elevations beneath a slate tile roof. Houses the grain dryer and additional storage of approximately 110 tonnes across five bins. Chemical store accessed via separate locked door. Single-phase electricity.
Building 2a - Lean-To (5m x 6.3m): Adjoining lean-to of timber frame beneath a slate roof, sectioned into former pig pens with breeze block walls and concrete floor and yard.
Building 2b - Store (6m x 4.4m): Concrete rendered store adjoining the rear of Building 2.
Building 3 - Long Barn (7m x 41m): A substantial timber frame barn on a red brick plinth with weatherboarded elevations and concrete floor. Arranged internally to provide a workshop, central store and open former pig pens, with single glazed windows to the workshop.
Building 4 - Former Pig Building (6m x 12.5m): Open-fronted former pig building with breeze block sty walls, part asbestos clad elevations and corrugated asbestos sheet roof.
Building 5 - Former Pig Building (5m x 4m): Timber frame with concrete addition beneath a slate roof, arranged internally into three sections with concrete floors and single glazed timber windows.
Building 6 - Cart Shed (18m x 5.2m): Timber frame cart shed with weatherboarded elevations beneath a slate tile roof and concrete floor, with a lean-to to one end.
Building 7 - Former block-built pig building (5m x 6.5m): with an adjoining overflow water tank on the southern elevation.
Building 8 - Open-Fronted Machinery Store (14m x 13.6m) - Currently used for agricultural machinery storage, this building forms part of Lot 2. Timber frame on a block plinth to approximately 1.5m with corrugated asbestos roof and cladding to three elevations and concrete floor, with an adjoining open-fronted steel portal-framed lean-to.

Lot 2 - Ransomes and arable land

About 6.15 acres (2.49 hectares)

Guide Price £300,000

Ransomes is a detached three-bedroom house of brick construction beneath a pantile roof, with an adjoining garage, situated to the south of Crippings Farmhouse and well screened by mature trees and shrubs, set within gardens of approximately 0.69 acres (0.28 ha) principally laid to lawn. The property adjoins an arable field of approximately 5.44 acres (2.20 ha) to the south, providing direct frontage onto High Easter Road and the opportunity to establish an independent vehicular access, at which point the property would be entirely self-contained.

Dating from the mid-1960s, the property is currently unoccupied and presents an attractive opportunity for redevelopment or replacement with a larger dwelling, subject to obtaining the necessary planning permissions.

Ransomes is currently subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition (AOC). Further details are available from the Vendors' agents.

A recent Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) assessment has been carried out, and the property is currently rated G.

Lot 3 - Atcost Farm Building and Land

About 0.86 acres (0.35 ha)

Guide Price £150,000

An open-fronted atcost agricultural building (13.85m x 14m) used for farm storage, set on a plot of approximately 0.86 acres (0.35 ha) on the eastern edge of the main farmyard. The building offers considerable scope for conversion to residential use or alternative development, subject to obtaining the necessary prior approvals or planning permissions.

The barn is accessed via the private farm drive from High Easter Road.

The Vendor has obtained pre-application planning advice from Uttlesford District Council (ref: UTT/26/0557/PA, April 2026) in respect of a potential Class Q prior approval conversion to a single residential dwelling. The response confirmed that the principle of conversion under Class Q could comply with the relevant provisions of the General Permitted Development Order. A copy of the pre-application response is available from the Vendors' agents.

Lot 4 - Arable Land at Crippings Farm

About 109.19 acres (44.18 ha)

Guide Price £1,050,000

A ring-fenced block of approximately 109.19 acres (44.18 ha) of productive arable farmland, classified as Grade 2 by Defra and described as being of the Stretham soil series - a calcareous clay soil with slowly permeable subsoils, capable of supporting high-yielding combinable crops including wheat.

The land is laid out in good-sized, well-shaped fields suited to modern arable machinery, accessed via the private farm drive and directly from High Easter Road. The holding has historically been farmed in a rotation of wheat, spring barley, beans and sugar beet.

The land is currently farmed under a contract farming agreement which terminates on 29th September 2026, at which point vacant possession will be available.

Tenure

Crippings Farm is offered for sale freehold and is registered under title numbers EX905445 and AA93284.

The holding is currently occupied pursuant to an inter-family Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 tenancy. The Vendor and the tenant have entered into a formal agreement to surrender the tenancy, which will be formalised by way of a Deed of Surrender prior to completion of the sale. Vacant possession will therefore be available upon completion.

Further details are available from the Vendors' agents.

Additional Property

Additional adjoining land known as Lords Wood, extending to approximately 35.68 acres (14.44 ha), is available by separate negotiation and adjoins the northern boundary of Crippings Farm. Further details are available from the Vendors' agents.

Early Entry

Purchasers may be granted early entry onto harvested fields following exchange of contracts for cultivation and crop establishment, subject to payment of an additional 10% deposit and agreement of terms.

Fixtures and Fittings

Any fixtures, fittings and chattels, whether referred to in these particulars or not, are excluded from the sale unless expressly stated to be included.

Sporting, Timber & Mineral Rights

All sporting, timber and mineral rights are included within the sale in so far as they are owned.

Easements, Wayleaves & Rights of Way

The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all rights, including rights of way (whether public or private), light, support, drainage, water and electricity supplies, together with any other rights and obligations, easements and quasi-easements, restrictive covenants and all existing and proposed wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cables, drains, water, gas and other pipes, whether referred to in these particulars or not.

Boundaries

All boundaries outlined on the attached plans are for identification purposes only. Prospective purchasers must satisfy themselves as to the position of any boundaries and the ownership of them, and any mistakes, omissions or inaccuracies will not entitle a purchaser to cancel the contract or claim compensation.

Local Authority

Uttlesford District Council
Council Offices, London Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 4ER
Tel:

Viewings

Strictly by appointment with the selling agents. Interested parties are requested to contact the agents to arrange a viewing.

VAT

Any guide price quoted or discussed is exclusive of VAT. In the event that a sale of the property or any part thereof, or any right attached to it, becomes a chargeable supply for the purposes of VAT, such tax will be payable by the purchaser in addition to the purchase price, and all interested parties are advised to seek independent professional advice regarding their VAT position.

Anti-Money Laundering

In accordance with the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017, once an offer is accepted the purchaser(s) will be required to provide any requested information to enable the necessary due diligence to be completed as a legal requirement.

Health & Safety

Given the potential hazards of a working farm, all parties viewing the property do so at their own risk. Neither the Vendor nor the selling agents accept any responsibility for the safety of those viewing the property, and visitors are asked to take particular care around farm machinery, buildings and water.