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Oatfield Farm Praze an Beeble, , TR14 0PB

Praze an Beeble 1.6 miles • Camborne 5 miles • 4.5 miles • Camborne West A30 5.5 miles

An attractive and versatile residential farm with extensive range of traditional and modern farm buildings set in attractive rolling countryside with far reaching views

• For auction on 26th September 2015 • Versatile farm • Period three bedroom farmhouse for internal refurbishment • Generous range of traditional farm buildings • Development potential (STP) • Productive free-draining pasture and arable land • 58 acres in all

Stags Stags Farm Agency 61 Lemon Street 21 Southernhay West The London Office Exeter 40 St James’s Place Cornwall TR1 2PE Devon EX1 1PR London Tel: 01872 264488 Tel: 01392 680059 SW1A 1NS Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7839 0888 stags.co.uk Oatfield Farm.qxp_Stags 19/08/2015 13:59 Page 4

Situation Oatfield Farm is situated just over 5 miles to the south of the A30 in picturesque rolling Cornish countryside roughly midway between the well serviced towns of Camborne and Helston. Both towns offer a wide variety of shopping and leisure facilities with mainline train services from Camborne to London Paddington (4 hours 37 minutes on selected services).

Praze an Beeble benefits from a good number of facilities for a village of its size with a fish and chip shop, village shop and Post Office, village doctor’s surgery, the popular St Aubyn’s Arms public house and the Crowan Primary School on the edge of the village which has been judged as a “good” school by OFSTED.

The cathedral city of Truro lies approximately 19 miles to the north east and provides a comprehensive range of shops, restaurants and medical facilities. There are some excellent Cornish beaches both on the south and north coasts within easy reach and the popular watersports facility at Reservoir is just 7 miles to the east.

The farmhouse itself is set back slightly from the B3303 road, which runs between Camborne and Helston. There is an attractive courtyard of traditional farm buildings beside the farmhouse. The land, all bar one parcel, is all within a ring fence on both sides of the road. The farm lies approximately 100 metres above sea level and is classified as Grade 3 on the Agricultural Land Classification maps.

Introduction The property comprises a versatile farm with an attractive period three bedroom stone farmhouse, an adjacent courtyard of traditional barns, a derelict cottage and further barns. The farmstead is surrounded by a ring fence of approximately 48 acres of pasture and arable land which is roughly bisected by the B3303. In addition, there is an off-lying parcel of disused mine workings, now largely overgrown.

The property has obvious potential to renovate and possibly extend the farmhouse subject to planning. The traditional farm buildings would suit a number of alternate uses, subject to obtaining any necessary permissions. The farm could be used for a number of livestock or arable enterprises or be let out or farmed with local contractors. It is likely to suit a variety of buyers including: expanding farmers, or those “just starting out”. Alternatively it may interest a residential buyer wanting to control the land around them, or perhaps a semi-retired or hobby farmer, looking to fully exploit the obvious potential.

The Farmhouse Of stone construction under a relatively new slate roof. The farmhouse sits set back from the road, and is surrounded by attractive farm land on two sides, a garden on the third side and an attractive courtyard of traditional farm buildings between the farm house and the road. The accommodation is shown on the attached floor plan. Very briefly it comprises a Utility Room, Kitchen, Sitting Room, Dining Room, with three bedrooms and a bathroom on the 1st floor. The accommodation would benefit from extensive modernisation/renovation and there may be potential to extend the accommodation area, perhaps into the adjoining traditional barn currently used as stables. As well as the roof having been replaced fairly recently, the windows on the southern side have also been replaced in recent years. The farmhouse enjoys views across the adjoining farm land. To the south is a sheltered, small, enclosed garden mainly laid to lawns, with mature shrubs and borders. Within the garden is a stone outside toilet and a concrete block garden outbuilding. Oatfield Farm.qxp_Stags 19/08/2015 13:59 Page 5

The Buildings The farm buildings comprise a courtyard of traditional barns and a derelict cottage adjacent to the farmhouse, with more modern style farm buildings further to the south. There is a secondary separate access to the farm buildings directly off the highway. All except one building appears to have electricity connected. The farm buildings have potential for a number of alternative uses, subject to obtaining any necessary consent. In particular, there is an off-lying barn to the west of the main farmyard sitting in the corner of an attractive pasture field that may offer potential under the recent Permitted Development regulations permitting some agricultural barns to be converted into residential dwellings.

The buildings are numbered and shown on the attached building plan, and briefly comprise:

1. Concrete Block Store: (4.00m x 2.36m) (measured from digital mapping tool) Single storey building of concrete block construction under a pitched fibre cement roof with wooden door.

2. Former Livestock Barn: (3.73m x 12.90m) Single storey, traditional stone barn under clay tile and slate roof.

3. Former Cow Stalls: (5.90m x 2.08m plus 6.90m x 3.34m) Single storey building housing former cow stalls of traditional stone construction under a pitched slate roof with stone floor.

4. Stone Barn/Former Cottage: (3.75m x 10.50m) (not incuding motor house) Two storey stone building under a pitched slate roof. External steps to 1st floor, concrete ground floor and adjoining concrete block, former motor house.

5. Modern Cubicle Building: (5.11m x 19.53m) Of concrete block construction under a pitched fibre cement roof with concrete floor.

6. Dutch Barn: (22.80m x 6.46m plus 9.04m x 6.46m) Open on three sides under corrugated sheet roof, and a corrugated sheet back wall with internal concrete block dividing wall.

7. Concrete Block Store: (15.42m x 6.83m) Fully enclosed concrete block building under corrugated sheeted roof with earth floor. Sub-divided internally.

8. Workshop: (18.64m x 5.94m) Fully enclosed concrete block building under a pitched fibre cement roof with concrete floor and accessed at either end, sited slightly to the west of the farmstead in the corner of the field.

9. Off-Lying Former Livestock Barn: (9.00m x 5.40m) Of timber framed construction under a pitched fibre cement and sheeted metal roof with concrete floor (in poor condition).

The Land The land extends to approximately 57.92 acres (23.44 hectares). It comprises generally practical shaped and sized fields, approximately half arable and half pasture. Four of the fields are on the same side of the road as the farmyard and eight are on the other side of the road. The fields appear to be generally bordered by well established Cornish hedges, providing good shade and shelter. There is a generous length of road frontage which provides direct access to several fields. The soil is free draining and slightly acidic loamy soil and most of the pasture fields could be brought back into arable production if required.

A parcel of land to the north west known as Crenver Burrows consists of disused mine workings and is now overgrown with scrub and trees. An area within this parcel has been cleared of vegetation and may offer some potential for alternative uses subject to obtaining any necessary planning consents (the neighbouring parcel is being used for container storage rental). Oatfield Farm.qxp_Stags 19/08/2015 13:59 Page 6

Services *Please note: Guide prices are an indication of the sellers’ Historically the farm has been watered via a private well and expectation; The Reserve Price is a figure below which the pump in field number 1363, however after a recent fault, auctioneer cannot sell the property. Guide Prices may change mains water has been connected via a neighbour’s existing at any time before the auction. mains supply, which purchasers must assume shall not be available to them. The land and buildings are fed from a Auction Venue network of water troughs. Mains electricity is connected to Lanhydrock Golf and Country Club, Road, the house, and most of the farm buildings. The house has a private septic tank, a bottled gas fed cooker and an oil fired , Cornwall, PL30 5AQ. Aga, which also provides hot water. Vendor’s Solicitors Local Authority Borlase Solicitors, 45 Coinagehall Street, Helston, Cornall, Cornwall County Council, County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, TR13 8EU, T: 01326 574 988 FAO: Jessica Cornish Cornwall, TR1 3AY, T: 0300 1234 100 E: [email protected] Tenure Freehold with vacant possession available on completion. Auction Legal Pack This includes the searches, draft contracts, deeds/epitome of Farm Subsidy Schemes title, special conditions of sale, etc, and is available for The new Basic Payment Scheme has been claimed by the purchase for £30 including VAT from the vendor’s solicitors. vendor and the purchaser will be obliged to comply with the Alternatively it can be inspected free of charge by cross compliance rules for the remainder of the calendar year. appointment at Stags Truro Office. It is the purchaser’s The relevant entitlements will be transferred to the purchaser responsibility to make all the necessary enquiries prior to the for the 2016 year. Entry Level Stewardship Scheme in place, RPA Agreement Number AG00372388. Period 1st May 2011 auction. – 30th April 2016. Completion Date Plans And Boundary Fences Completion is set for Thursday 19th November 2015 or earlier A plan, which is not to scale and is not to be relied upon, is by agreement. The purchaser shall be granted rights to take attached to these particulars. Purchasers must satisfy early possession of the land for arable operations if required. themselves by inspection or otherwise as to its accuracy. Fixtures and Fittings Viewing All fixtures and fittings, unless specifically referred to within Viewing of the property is strictly by prior appointment with these particulars, are expressly excluded from the sale of the the vendor’s appointed agents, Stags Truro Office 01872 264 freehold. 488. Wayleaves, rights of way etc Directions The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of any wayleave agreements in respect of electricity or telephone From the Camborne West Junction on the A30, skirt around equipment and the property is also sold subject to and with the south west side of Camborne on the A3047. In the town the benefit of any public or private rights of way. There is a centre, turn right at the mini roundabout, signed “all other public footpath that runs through field parcels 8652, 8561, traffic”. At the next roundabout, bear right signposted 8974, 7374 and 5972. We are not aware of any other public “Helston B3303 and Praze An Beeble”. Follow this road to or private rights of way that affect the property. Praze An Beeble and continue through the village. The farm Method Of Sale shall be found on the right hand side approximately 1.5 miles The property is offered for sale as a whole by Public Auction after the village. If you reach Skewes Nursery on the right at 6.00 pm on Thursday 24th September 2015. The property hand side, you have gone approximately ¼ of a mile too far. will be sold subject to an undisclosed reserve and the vendor A For Sale board has been erected. reserves the right for the auctioneer to bid on their behalf up to the reserve. The vendor also reserves the right to sell or These particulars are a guide only and should not be relied withdraw all or part of the property prior to the auction. upon for any purpose. Oatfield Farm.qxp_Stags 19/08/2015 13:59 Page 7

Approx. Gross Internal Floor Area 106.2 Sq Metres 1144 Sq Ft (Excludes Stables)

Sitting Room Bedroom 2 3.38 x 3.33m 3.10 x 2.82m 11'1 x 10'11 10'2 x 9'3

Utility 2.82 x 1.93m 9'3 x 6'4

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Bedroom 1 4.45 x 2.44m Dining Room 14'7 x 8' 5.51 x 3.00m Bedroom 3 18'1 x 9'10 3.23 x 3.10m 10'7 x 10'2

Ground First Floor Floor Kitchen 3.66 x 3.53m 12' x 11'7

Stables 5.94 x 3.71m 19'6 x 12'2 Oatfield Farm.qxp_Stags 19/08/2015 13:59 Page 8