Everton Farm, Insch, Aberdeenshire

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Everton Farm, Insch, Aberdeenshire Everton Farm Insch, Aberdeenshire AB52 6PP A desirable stock farm with modernised farmhouse and excellent cattle accommodation in a prime livestock area

Insch 2.5 miles, Inverurie 12 miles Aberdeen 28 miles

Lot 1 Farmhouse: Sitting room | Dining room Kitchen | Study | 3 Bedrooms | Bathroom EPC rating F

Traditional farm buildings | Machinery store GP shed | Boarding kennels | Cattle pens Lambing shed cattle and a number of sheep have also been Arable field about 11 acres run. The farm is a short distance off the public road along a tarred drive. Lot 2 Modern farm buildings: Cattle courts | Silage All the land benefits from having less favoured pit | Draff store | Hay shed area status. The area is well supplied with machinery dealers, agricultural contractors, farm About 100 acres arable | About 15 acres suppliers, etc. pasture Lot 1: Everton Farmhouse – About 130 acres (52.7ha) in total About 12.8 acres Situated conveniently close to the farm steading For sale a whole or in 2 lots Everton Farmhouse is constructed of stone with a harled exterior under a slate roof. The house The property has a fine easterly outlook down the valley. It Everton comprises an exceptionally well was modernised in 1988 to provide the following equipped stock and arable farm. Many of the accommodation on two floors: fields are adjacent to public roads. The fields are well fenced for both cattle and sheep and A partially glazed front door to the entrance most fields have their own watering points or vestibule with stairs to first floor, a partially troughs. glazed door to rear hall and doors to the living room, dining room, study, utility room and store. It is a particularly well equipped stock farm which has capacity to house approximately 400 Floorplans

Bedroom 3 4.30 x 4.14 14'1" x 13'7"

Bedroom 2 DN Bedroom 1 5.10 x 3.20 Landing 5.09 x 4.24 16'9" x 10'6" 16'8" x 13'11" (max)

Bathroom 4.18 x 1.88 13'9" x 6'2"

First Floor

WC 1.70 x 0.92 Kitchen 5'7" x 3'0" 4.45 x 3.99 14'7" x 13'1" (min) Utility Room 3.25 x 1.72 10'8" x 5'8" Rear Porch 2.60 x 1.47 8'6" x 4'10"

Study 3.37 x 1.77 Store 11'1" x 5'10"

Sitting Room c 5.04 x 4.16 Dining Room UP 16'6" x 13'8" 4.26 x 3.18 14'0" x 10'5" Entrance Hall (max) 2.83 x 2.28 9'3" x 7'6"

Ground Floor In the living room there are French doors to • Lean-to 1 (12) 21m x 6m (Stuart of Old the garden and a Hunter multi fuel stove. The Rayne construction) timber frame with kitchen, with a solid fuel Raeburn and walk- concrete block dwarf walls, corrugated in pantry, overlooks the drive and main yard. iron side cladding and corrugated roof with Three bedrooms and a bathroom on the first concrete floor. floor complete the accommodation. • General purpose shed (14) 24m x 9m – 4 bay steel portal frame with concrete block/stone Outside walls with corrugated tin side cladding and There is an attractive garden with a vegetable corrugated roof. Concrete floor. patch and a stone and slate roof storage shed. • Covered cattle handing system (16) with Traditional Farm Buildings 3 bull pens, holding pens, crush, cattle crate Part of the original farm steading remains and and loading ramp. provides useful storage space for dog kennels/ lambing pens, fuel and vehicles. The numbers Field in brackets refer to the block plan of the Included in Lot 1 is part of Field 14 to the south buildings. east of the farmhouse. Presently in grass with stockproof fencing. Classified 3(2) by the Hutton • Lambing shed (15) 32m x 6.5m harled stone Institute. walls, corrugated roof with steel roof trusses and concrete floor. This building was used as boarding kennels until 2011, with 21 pens. • Turnip shed/bull pens (13) 17m x 5m stone under slate roof with concrete floor, 3 bull pens of tubular steel construction. • Workshop (19) 16m x 5.2m. • Fuel store/fencing shed (17) 10m x 4.7m harled stone under corrugated roof. Chemical store. Workshop on 1st floor. • Store with loft area (17) 11m x 4.7m stone walls. • Garage (18) 5.36m x 2.74m. • Five bull pens (16) 20m x 5.3m tubular steel lean-to with concrete block walls, galvanised corrugated steel roof and concrete floor. Concrete block feed troughs. Tubular steel gates, automatic water bowls. • Lambing shed (11) 23m x 10.4m harled concrete block and stone walls, corrugated roof and concrete floor. • Cattle court 2 (12) 21m x 9.2m (Stuart of Old Rayne construction) 6 bay timber frame with part concrete block walls and part Yorkshire boarding, corrugated roof and concrete floor, steel feed barriers, access to traditional court/turnip store. Lot 2: A Useful Block of Modern Farm Buildings & Land – About 117 acres

Approached off a tarred access road and situated to the west of the original steading are the modern farm buildings which have been carefully laid out to create an efficient working environment and designed to ease the flow of traffic and the handling of stock with good concrete aprons.

From the south west corner

• Grain storage bins: 2 x 250 tonnes, 1 x 200 The Land tonnes Bryce Baker galvanised steel storage The land is classified by the Hutton Institute as bins. Class 3(2) & 4(2). From 160 metres to 270 metres • Silage pit (2) 36m x 11.4m capacity for 2,000 above sea level. The land is 99.81 acres arable, tonnes covered steel with reinforced concrete 15.31 acres pasture, 2.27 acres buildings etc., sleeper walls and concrete floor. generally with an easterly aspect. All the fields • Draff pit (1) 14m x 5m capacity for 500 have water troughs fed from the farm supply. tonnes. Steel stanchions with reinforced concrete sleeper walls and concrete floor. Location Everton Farm is located 28 miles north west of • Cattle court 3 (4/5) 29m x 13.2m with lean- Aberdeen, the “Granite City” and oil capital of to (3) 26m x 7m. 5 bay steel frame with Europe. Situated in rural Aberdeenshire to the concrete block walls. Galvaprime roof sheets north of Castle Forbes and east of the famous and ventilated gable cladding. Concrete landmark of Bennachie. Everton is readily drive through feed pass with concrete accessible to Aberdeen’s International Airport troughs and some locking steel barriers. at Dyce (22 miles). It has a comprehensive • Cattle court 4 (6) 30m x 6m timber pole range of international and domestic flights daily. with concrete block gable wall, roof sheets, A regular inter-city rail service operates from concrete troughs (perimeter feeding). Aberdeen and there is a connecting railway • Straw store (7) 23m x 18m with 2 lean-tos station at Insch, 2½ miles away. 23m x 9m. Steel frame with galvanised steel side cladding, box profile and corrugated roof Alford and Inverurie are the two principal towns and hardcore floor. nearby; both are agricultural centres and commuting towns for Aberdeen with Thainstone • Cattle court 5 (8) 23m x 8m steel frame with Market, situated at Inverurie. Both centres galvanised steel side cladding, box profile provide a comprehensive range of shops, roof and concrete floor. Central feed pass hotels, garages, post offices, secondary and between courts 5 & 6. primary schooling. Primary schooling is also • Cattle court 6 (9) 23m x 9m steel frame with available at Auchleven. galvanised steel side cladding, box profile roof and concrete floor. The range of amenities available in the area are • Machinery shed (22) 31m x 8m lean-to steel considerable with a number of golf courses, frame general purpose shed. Hardcore floor. fishing opportunities on the nearby River Don • Hard standing for bale storage. and skiing available at Aviemore, Glenshee and the Lecht and also at the dry ski slope in Alford. General Sportings: The sporting rights are included in 2. All growing crops on a seeds, labour, lime, the seller(s) shall be entitled to resile from Entry: By arrangement. the sale. fertiliser, sprays and machinery basis with an the contract. The seller(s), in that event Government Bodies: Aberdeenshire Council, Agricultural Code: 017/0024 increment representing the enhanced value of reserves the right to resell or deal otherwise Gordon House, Blackhall Road, Inverurie, Rights of way, wayleaves and easements: the establishment and age of such crops. with the subjectsof sale, as he thinks fit. AB51 3WB. Tel: 01467 6200981. The farm is sold subject to all existing rights of 3. All hay, straw, fodder, silage and farmyard Furthermore he shall be entitled to retain in Forestry Authority: Ordiquhill, Portsoy Road, support, way, public rights of way, water, light manure and other produce at market value. his hands the initial payment of ten per cent Huntly, AB54 4SJ. Tel: 01466 794542. and drainage, wayleaves and all or any other 4. All oils, fuel, fertilisers, sprays, chemicals, herein before referred to which shall be set Rural Payments & Inspectorate Division: like rights whether or not mentioned in these seeds and sundry stores at cost. off to account of any loss occasioned to him Thainstone Court, Inverurie, AB51 5YA. particulars. If the amount of the valuation has not been by the purchaser’s failure and in the event Tel: 01467 626222. Wayleave Payments: There are a number of agreed by the date fixed for completion, then of the loss being less than the amount of the said deposit the seller(s) shall account Solicitors: Burnett & Reid, 15 Golden Square, electricity lines on the farm which produce an the purchaser shall pay to the seller such a sum, to the purchaser(s) for any balance thereof Aberdeen AB10 1WF. income of circa £336. as Strutt & Parker shall certify, on account of the remaining in his hand. Ingoing Valuations: The purchaser shall in valuation pending agreement. Outgoings: Everton Farm has been assessed 2. The Property will be sold subject to all rights addition to the purchase price, be obliged to Basic Payment Scheme: The seller has as band F for Council Tax purposes excluding of way, rights of access, wayleave, servitude, take over and pay for at a valuation to be agreed registered for the Basic Payment Scheme and water rates. water rights, drainage and sewage rights, between two valuers, one acting for each they will transfer their entitlements with the farm Household Contents: The fitted carpets are restrictions and burdens of whatever kind party, or an arbiter appointed by the valuers, or apportioned to each lot. The seller will retain the included in the sale. at present existing and whether contained failing agreement as to the appointment by the 2015 payment Services: Everton Farmhouse: Private drainage in the Title Deeds or otherwise and whether President, for the time being, of the Royal and private water, mains electricity, double Offers: Offers should be submitted in Scottish formally constituted or not affecting the glazing and oil central heating. Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Scottish Legal form to Messrs. Strutt & Parker, St. subject of sale. Branch) the following: Nicholas House, 68 Station Road, Banchory, Farm buildings: 3 phase mains electricity. 3. The seller(s) shall be responsible for any Kincardineshire, AB31 5YJ. A closing date for Minerals: In so far as they are owned they are 1. All cultivations valued on a labour and rates, taxes and other burdens for the offers will probably be fixed and prospective included in the sale. machinery basis. possession and for collection of income prior purchasers are advised to register their interest to the said date of entry. Where necessary, with the selling agents following inspection. all rates, taxes and other burdens and Special Conditions of Sale income will be apportioned between the 1. The purchaser(s) shall within five days of seller(s) and the purchaser(s) as at the said conclusion of missives make payment as date of entry. a guarantee for due performance of a sum 4. The minerals will be included in the sale of equal to ten per cent of the purchase price the property only in so far as the seller(s) has on which sum no interest will be allowed. rights thereto. Timeous payment of said sum shall be a material condition of the contract. In 5. Lot 1 will own the access road, subject to a the event that such payment is not made right of access in favour of Lot 2. timeously the seller(s) reserves the right to resile without further notice. The balance of Directions the purchase price will be paid by Bankers From Aberdeen head north on the A96, by- Draft at the date of entry and interest at five pass Inverurie and bear left after 6½ miles per cent above the Royal Bank of Scotland onto the B9002 towards Insch, bear left after base rate current from time to time will be 3 miles towards Auchleven. In Auchleven turn charged thereon from the term of entry left, continue up the hill towards Alford and until payment. Consignation shall not avoid the entrance to Everton is on the right as one payment of the foregoing rate of interest. ascends the hill. In the event of the purchaser(s) failing to make payment of the balance of the said Viewing: Strictly by appointment through Strutt & Parker LLP. Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Mapping price at the date of entry, payment of the with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown Copyright balance of the purchase price on the due (ES100018525). NOT TO SCALE date being of the essence of the contract,

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Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. Plotted Scale - 1:750 Field No. Arable PP RG/Bldgs Lot 1 14pt 4.46 15 0.22 Bldgs 0.5 Ha 4.46 0.22 0.5 Acres 11.02 0.54 1.24 Lot 2 5 0.27 6 0.05 7 14.97 8 6.23 9 4.05 10 0.09 11 0.51 12 11.21 13 2.15 14pt 8.00 Ha 40.41 6.2 0.92 Acres 99.81 15.31 2.27 Banchory St Nicholas House, 68 Station Road, Banchory AB31 5YJ 01330 826800 [email protected] struttandparker.com IMPORTANT NOTICE Strutt & Parker LLP gives notice that: 1. These particulars do not constitute an offer or contract or part thereof. 2. All descriptions, photographs and plans are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. All measurements are approximate and not necessarily to scale. Any prospective purchaser must satisfy themselves of the correctness of the information within the particulars by inspection 55 offices across England and Scotland, or otherwise. 3. Strutt & Parker LLP does not have any authority to give any representations or warranties whatsoever in relation to this property (including but not limited to planning/building regulations), nor can it enter into any contract on behalf of the Vendor. 4. Strutt & Parker LLP does not accept responsibility for any expenses incurred by prospective purchasers in inspecting properties which have been sold, let or withdrawn. 5. If there is anything of including 10 offices in Central London particular importance to you, please contact this office and Strutt & Parker will try to have the information checked for you. Photographs taken June 2015. Particulars prepared November 2015.