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Sykeside Farm Soulby Kirkby Stephen Sykeside Farm Soulby, Kirkby Stephen CA17 4PJ • A delightful productive grassland farm in the Eden Valley with house, holiday cottage, farm buildings and approximately 76 acres. • 1 mile from the village of Soulby and 3 miles north west of Kirkby Stephen with good access to the A66 (Brough) and the M6 (Tebay), providing excellent links to the national road network. Kirkby Stephen Station (4.6 miles) is on the Settle Carlisle railway line. • Attractive three bedroomed farmhouse with Agricultural Occupancy Condition. • Substantial detached three bedroomed holiday cottage barn conversion producing a gross income of £20,484 per annum (3 year average, after agent’s fees). • Contemporary range of portal framed buildings providing versatile storage and livestock housing. • With freely draining land, the farm includes some amenity woodland, an attractive stream and far reaching views to the Pennines, Nine Standards and Mallerstang Edge and Wild Boar Fell. • The house and holiday cottage have underfloor heating, each with their own geothermal heat pump, and water to the whole property is supplied from a private shared borehole. The RHI provides a useful additional income (£1,320 in 2019). Soulby: approx. 1 mile Kirkby Stephen: approx. 3 miles A66: approx. 7 miles M6: approx. 15 miles GENERAL THE HOLIDAY COTTAGE The farm lies in the Eden Valley, a renowned Lying immediately to the south of the house, farming district which is outside and yet Rainbow Cottage is also a barn conversion with surrounded by The Lake District and the Yorkshire the accommodation being laid out on one floor as Dales National Parks and the North Pennines shown on the floor layout plan. The cottage has AONB. It has attributes that appeal to farmers and an enclosed courtyard, a paved patio area non-farmers alike ranging from fertile free draining overlooking the beck and woodland and a lawned soils, to diversified sources of income and a fast garden to the south. There is ample parking. It is broadband connection. Situated in its own a planning condition that the cottage be used in microclimate, it has an average annual rainfall of connection with and ancillary to the farm (and not approximately 41 inches. The house and holiday occupied as a separate independent residential cottage have been converted to a very high unit). It may be possible to review this condition standard within the last 15 years. Approached through the normal planning process. Rainbow along a private shared farm road they enjoy a Cottage has an excellent track record for holiday charming setting overlooking the beck and amenity lets for 15 years. The full complement of woodland to the west. furnishings and fittings along with existing forward bookings is to be included in the sale so that it can THE HOUSE continue to be let as a holiday cottage without The property is approached via Sykeside Lane; the disruption. house lies to the left just before the farm buildings. THE BUILDINGS It is of stone construction and mostly rendered and painted white, under a stone and blue slate roof. It General Purpose Building: Attached to the has underfloor heating from a geothermal heat farmhouse (approx. 8m x 14m), the building pump together with a two oven oil fired AGA and a currently provides stabling and useful general log burning stove in the Sitting Room. Invaluable storage area. additional covered space is provided by the former Workshop: Attached to the farmhouse with secure cow house and dairy attached to the farmhouse access from outside. The building is divided into with ample and versatile storage and stabling. two (approx. 3.45m x 2.59m and 6.22m x Subject to planning, it may be possible to further 3.28m). extend the accommodation into the attached cow Dutch Barn: A useful five bay open fronted house. Having originally been a traditional stone building (approx. 22.8m x 12m) of steel portal granary, planning permission was granted to frame construction presently used as cattle convert it into a holiday cottage in 2003; housing and the storage of implements and subsequently, in 2008, planning permission was machinery. granted to allow it to be occupied by someone employed or last employed in agriculture in the Timber Frame Barn: A five bay building (approx. local area. There is a concrete parking area to the 22.1m x 14.2m) which has been well kitted out front of the house, and to the west is a delightful with wash area, internal pens and sheep handling raised decking area overlooking the beck. facilities. Borehole Pump House: Located off the farm road them that would impede the open view of the close to the entrance of the property and Rainbow retained property or do on them anything that Cottage. Housing the water treatment equipment and might be a nuisance or disruptive to the controls and regularly tested to Environmental Health retained property; and Standards. • To limit the scale of development that can take THE LAND place in respect of the two buildings and the land on which they sit as shown edged blue on the The land lies between approximately 150 metres and plan, notably not to undertake any residential 180 metres (492ft and 590ft) above sea level. All of conversion or construction works. the land is down to grass with a small area of amenity parkland style woodland to the west of the ACCESS house and holiday cottage. Two thirds of the farm is The maintenance of Sykeside Lane, which is level Eden Valley land; the land is deep permeable privately owned, is shared with the other residential loamy soil, free from stones, of moderate to high properties. fertility ideally suited to short term grassland and some arable. All of the land can be cultivated and SPORTING & MINERAL RIGHTS mown. The fields have water for livestock (from the The sporting rights in so far as they are owned are borehole supply and/or Blind Beck) and are bounded included with the sale. The mineral rights are not by post and wire fences. A small wetland area has owned and are therefore excluded from the sale. been created in the northern most field (Field No 0455) which attracts a range of native birds and SERVICES migratory wildfowl in the winter months. The layout Water is supplied by a private borehole and mains and boundary responsibilities can be identified on the electricity is connected. Heating to the house and farm plan. holiday cottage is provided by the geothermal heat pumps. The farmhouse is served by a private NITRATE VULNERABLE ZONE drainage system which is shared with the The land is located outside a DEFRA designated neighbouring Sykeside House (which is in separate Nitrate Vulnerable Zone. ownership). The holiday cottage is served by a SUBSIDIES separate private drainage system. The land is registered with the Rural Payments WAYLEAVES, EASEMENTS & RIGHTS OF WAY Agency under the Basic Payment Scheme. The 2019 payment was c.£7,000. The Entitlements can be The property is sold subject to wayleaves, made available by separate negotiation. easements and rights of way, both public and private, which may affect or benefit the property. PLANNING There is a public footpath which runs along Sykeside The local planning authority is Eden District Council. Lane and the farm track and then through Field Nos. 8433 and 8449. RESTRICTIVE COVENANT To protect the Vendor’s retained property, a COUNCIL TAX restriction will be placed against the title as follows: The house is in Council Tax Band D. • To use those parts of Field No 0342 and 8433 shown hatched black on the plan for farming purposes only and not to erect on them any buildings or structures or store anything on BUSINESS RATES GENERAL Rainbow Cottage has a Rateable Value of £4,350. The photographs are reproduced for general The owner presently receives the benefit of Small information only. All measurements are Business Rates Relief and therefore no Business approximate and are provided for guidance Rates are currently payable. purposes only. TENURE Details Prepared: October 2020 The property is held freehold. Vacant possession will be given upon completion. DIRECTIONS From Kirkby Stephen head west on Silver Street and after approximately 500 yards continue on the right fork towards Soulby; after about 1 mile you will travel past Riddlesay; after a further mile, travel through the village of Soulby leaving Bonny Gate COTTAGE FLOOR PLAN Farm on your right and after approximately 300 yards on the bend in the road, turn to the right down Sykeside Lane which will marked with a sale board and the farmhouse will be found at the far end of the lane. VIEWINGS The property can only be viewed strictly by appointment through the Selling Agents. To arrange a viewing please contact Nigel Foster/Victoria Bailey at WBW Surveyors Ltd on 01756 692900 or Ed Hewetson at Hewetson & Johnson on 01768 342666. GUIDE PRICE Offers in the region of £1,200,000. OFFERS The farm is offered for sale by private treaty as a whole and the Vendors through their Agents reserve the right to conclude the sale by all appropriate means. Please register your interest with the Selling Agents so they can keep you informed as the sale progresses. If you are interested in part of the property only, then please register your interest with the Selling Agents so that they are aware of your interest and can provide for it if that is possible and fits in with the sale of the remainder. FARMHOUSE FLOOR PLAN Ground Floor EPC First Floor The Floor Plan is for illustrative purposes only. While we don not doubt the floor plans accuracy, we make no guarantee, warranty or representation as to the accuracy of the floor plan.