NORTH LEES GRANGE AND SNOW CLOSE FARMS , north

NORTH LEES GRANGE AND SNOW CLOSE FARMS ripon, , hg4 3hw

North Lees Grange - 4 bedroom detached farmhouse with 2 bed annex Snow Close Farmhouse – 4 bedroom detached farmhouse Close Cottage – 3 bedroom detached cottage Extensive range of modern farm buildings including grain stores and cattle housing Livery facilities, 26 stables and outdoor arena Grade 2 and 3 soils Strategically located on the northern fringe of Ripon

In all about 461 acres (186.5 Hectares)

For sale by private treaty as a whole or in seven lots

Ripon 2 miles u Thirsk 14 miles u 15 miles u York 27 miles (All distances are approximate)

Savills York River House, 17 Museum Street York, YO1 7DJ [email protected] 01904 617800 savills.co.uk Situation Description North Lees Grange and Snow Close Farms are situated on the fringe of the Vale of York, North Lees Grange and Snow Close Farms, together are a versatile and diversified arable unit a renowned farming area. Surroundings are predominantly arable fields interspersed with with three residential properties and over 460 acres of Grade 2 and 3 soils. The farm has been attractive woodlands and shelterbelts, which border the fringe of Ripon City. run by the outgoing tenants as a traditional arable farm with diversification into equine livery, having historically been a dairy holding. The farm has good transport connections, being only 27 miles from York railway station, from which some services to London Kings Cross take less than 2 hours. The A1 is only 5.5 miles to North Lees Grange farmstead is located in the northern part of the holding and has the bulk the east and provides excellent north-south connectivity. of the modern farm buildings, including grain stores and livestock buildings together with the farmhouse and annex. Snow Close Farm lies on the fringe of Ripon to the south and includes Racing can be enjoyed at York, Thirsk, Ripon or Wetherby all within 30 miles. Ripon City Golf an extensive range of traditional farm buildings, utilised as a livery yard together with Close Course is about 1 mile to the east. Cottage off-lying the farm and livery entrance. north lees grange Approximate Gross Internal Area Main House: 279.85 sq.m / 3,012.28 sq.ft Traditional Farm Building: 195.88 sq.m / 2,108.43 sq.ft Total: 475.73 sq.m / 5120.71 sq.ft

North Lees Grange North Lees Grange farmhouse sits off the farm entrance and features such as coving. First floor accommodation includes Attached to the farmhouse and linked on the first floor via is a large detached red brick property with slate roof. four bedrooms and a family bathroom. an internal door is a two bedroom annex. This element of the property does require modernisation. Accommodation Ground floor accommodation includes porch, living room The property has solid fuel central heating. The property includes a ground floor kitchen and living room, with two first with open fire, kitchen with range of fitted units, pantry, dining would generally benefit from some updating and floor bedrooms and a shower room, with wash basin and WC. room and sitting room. Both the dining and sitting room improvement, but makes for a well-proportioned family home benefit from large bay windows, which let a lot of light into with a pleasant outlook and garden, opening to the parking There is further store and outside WC also attached onto the rooms. Many of the rooms have open fires and traditional area and farmyard. the annex.

Farm buildings The farm buildings at North Lees Grange include a traditional range in a linear format, close to the farmhouse. These are constructed from a mixture of red brick and stone with slate and fibre cement roof coverings. These have been occupied as stores more recently.

Arranged around a hardcore and concrete yard is an extensive range of modern farm buildings which have historically been used for dairy farming, with significant livestock housing, general purpose buildings, grain storage and workshops.

• Livestock buildings with central feed passage (31.6m x 13.6m) x2 – Steel portal frame with fibre cement roof, brick walls, concrete floor and internal feed passage, part subdivided (previous location of milking parlour).

• Grain store (13.2m x 27m) – attached to the above livestock buildings, steel portal frame with fibre cement roof, part grain walling, part brick walls, concrete floor, two doors.

• Grain store and workshop (13.6m x 31.6m) – steel portal frame, fibre cement roof, block walls and concrete floor.

• Livestock buildings with central feed passage (13.6m x 31.6m) x2 – steel portal frame, fibre cement roof with block walls, hardcore and concrete floor.

• Livestock buildings with central feed passage attached to above grain store (13.6m x 31.6m) x2 – steel portal frame, fibre cement roof with block walls, hardcore and concrete floor.

• Livestock building (26.9m x 17.6m) – part steel and timber frame with lean to, steel profile roof, Yorkshire boarding, block walls and hardcore floor with concrete apron.

There is a large concrete pad with earth walls, previously utilised as silage clamp, and a further second yard area with a hardcore surface and part concrete.

The buildings provide an excellent range of modern buildings and the ability to house a good number of livestock at the holding together with extensive grain storage. snow close farm Approximate Gross Internal Area Farmhouse: 162.16 sq.m / 1,745.47 sq.ft Stable: 453.31 sq.m / 4,879.38 sq.ft Barn: 112.89 sq.m / 1,215.13 sq.ft Total: 728.36 sq.m / 7,840.00 sq.ft Snow Close Farm Snow Close farmhouse is a detached brick built rendered property with a slate roof. The property is attached to a large range of traditional farm buildings which form the livery accommodation at the property. Ground floor accommodation includes pantry and utility rooms, large kitchen, snug and sitting room with open fire. First floor accommodation includes four bedrooms and a family bathroom. There is a private residential drive and parking area, small garden and orchard to south and west elevations. The property has solid fuel central heating system and property would benefit from renovation and improvement. Close Cottage The property is a detached brick built property with Rosemary tile roof, sitting on the farm entrance to Snow Close Farm. The accommodation on the ground floor includes kitchen with a range of fitted units, dining room and living room with fireplace. The first floor accommodation includes three bedrooms and a family bathroom.

Adjacent to the house is a modest prefabricated garage and parking area. The property has oil fired central heating and UPVC double glazing. There are small gardens to both the front and rear end elevations and the property benefits from views over the adjacent farmland.

Snow Close Farm buildings The farm buildings at Snow Close Farm have been repurposed for livery accommodation with 26 stables in all. Many of these are formed from the traditional red brick and stone built farm buildings and barns. There is an additional tack room and further private storage areas within these buildings.

In addition there are two ranges of purpose built timber stables which sit within the yard complex and surrounding the Dutch barn, used for feed and hay storage. The Dutch barn is a timber framed construction with fibre cement roof and a hardcore floor (17.9m x 10.4m) with an additional lean to (10.4m x 4.7m). Adjacent to this is a small stable block built in block walls and a fibre cement roof. Beyond the yard area is an outdoor arena (40m x 20m) with a sand and rubber surface.

From the farm, a central access track provides good links to the paddock areas for turn out. The yard also includes a hardcore area for vehicle parking a clear visitor area away from the residential dwelling.

close cottage Approximate Gross Internal Area House: 110.92 sq.m / 1,193.93 sq.ft Garage: 17.84 sq.m / 193.02 sq.ft Total: 128.76 sq.m / 1,385.96 sq.ft

Lot 2

Lot 5

Lot 3 Land General Information The farmland lies in a ring fence surrounding the farmsteads Rights of Way, Easements & Wayleaves and adjacent to the Ripon - Masham Road. There is further The property is sold subject to, and with the benefit of all access from Kirkby Road and Harries Lane, close to Snow existing wayleaves, easements and rights of way, public Close Farm. The land has a range of access tracks which and private whether specifically mentioned or not. Public run through linking the various parcels. The farmland gently footpaths and bridleways cross the farms, local electricity undulates which is common for the area. The land is classified lines also cross the farmland. as Grade 2 and 3 under the MAFF Provisional Agricultural Land Classification. There are some areas where the land Services drainage requires attention and improvement. The land is a Mains electricity (three phase at North Lees Grange), mains loam with clay elements and has been farmed in a typical water supplies with an additional private borehole at North cereal location and some areas of permanent grassland in Lees Grange, private drainage (North Lees Grange), mains low lying areas. drainage at Snow Close.

The land is bound by mature hedgerows and small wooded Designations and Restrictions areas, which together with the undulation make for a very The farm lies within a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone. attractive setting.

Lot 4 Local Authority VAT Harrogate Borough Council VAT is payable in addition to the purchase price on the non- Lot 7 (purple) – Close Cottage – to include cottage and Civic Centre residential elements of the property, being the agricultural gardens with access off Little Harries Lane. In all about St Lukes Avenue land and buildings. An apportionment of the price agreed 0.25 acres. Harrogate will be made by Savills. For the avoidance of doubt, Stamp HG1 2AE Duty Land Tax is payable on the total price of the property Nearest Post Codes including VAT. All offers will be assumed to have been made North Lees Grange - HG4 3HW Subsidies & Grants on a VAT exclusive basis unless otherwise stated. Snow Close Farm - HG4 2QZ The land is registered on the Rural Land Registry (RLR) Close Cottage - HG4 2RA and sold with the benefit of Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) Council Tax Entitlements. The Entitlements are currently held by and have North Lees Grange – Band F Viewing been claimed in 2021 by the outgoing tenant. It is intended Snow Close Farmhouse – Band F Strictly by appointment through the selling agents Entitlements will be transferred to the purchaser(s) in Close Cottage – Band D Savills York. readiness for the 2022 claim. Business Rates Solicitors Field Plan and Back Cropping The current ratable value for Snow Close Farm Livery Farrer & Co, 66 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH RLR field plans and back cropping are available upon request. is £6,100. Health and Safety Early Entry Energy Performance Certificates Given the potential hazards of a working farm we would ask Early entry to the farm by the purchaser for North Lees Grange – EPC F you to be as vigilant as possible when inspecting the farm post-harvest cultivations will be allowed on payment of a Snow Close Farmhouse – EPC F for your own personal safety, in particular around the farm double deposit (20%). Close Cottage – EPC E buildings.

Sporting Rights Method of sale Date of Information The sporting rights are included in the sale insofar as they North Lees Grange and Snow Close Farm are offered for Particulars prepared – May 2021 are owned. sale by private treaty as a whole or in seven lots, offers for Photographs taken – May 2021 part may be considered. All prospective purchasers are Minerals encouraged to register their interest with Savills as soon Reference The mineral rights are included in the sale insofar as they as possible. WD/JM280521 are owned. Lot 1 (pink) – North Lees Grange – Farmhouse with annex, Sale Conditions traditional range of brick built farm buildings, extensive The property is sold subject to a development overage modern farm buildings, grassland and arable. In all about to capture uplift in value as the result of the grant of any 206 acres. planning consent, for a period of 90 years from the date of completion of the sale. Excepted forms of development are Lot 2 (green) – Land east of North Lees Grange – agriculture (including renewable energy crops), equestrian, Grade 3 arable land with access from the B6108. In all about forestry or open field horticulture. 62.25 acres.

The relevant overage percentages are as follows: Lot 3 (blue) – Land west of Ripon Golf Course – Grade 3 arable with access from the B6108. In all about 24.64 acres. Lot 1, 2 & 3 - 25% Lot 4 (yellow) - Land south of Spring Hill School – Grade 2 Lots 4, 5, 6 & 7 - 40%. farmland with access from the B6108. In all about 95.29 acres.

Tenure Lot 5 (amber) – Land off Kirkby Road – Grade 2 arable land The freehold of the farm is offered for sale with vacant with good road access. In all about 44.25 acres. possession following the expiry of the current Farm Business Lot 6 (light green) – Snow Close Farm – Farmhouse, Tenancy 30th September 2021. Holdover has been granted traditional range of brick built farm buildings, Dutch barn, to hold a farm machinery dispersal and store crops until 30th stables and outdoor arena with surrounding grass paddocks. November 2021. In all about 28.60 acres This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (100024244). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE.

Savills York River House, 17 Museum Street York YO1 7DJ [email protected] 01904 617800 Important Notice Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1: They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2: Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. savills.co.uk 21/06/10 WD Lot 1 Lot 2

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