Hilltop Farm ROCHFORD, ,

Hilltop Farm ROCHFORD, TENBURY WELLS, WORCESTERSHIRE, WR15 8SR

Tenbury Wells 4 miles • Worcester 18 miles • Birmingham 35 miles • 142 miles (Distances and times are approximate)

Productive farm with diversified income

• A substantial main farmhouse set within pretty walled garden • 3 further houses- currently used as holiday lets • A pair of semi-detached cottages • Traditional and modern farm buildings, including purpose built potato stores • Productive arable and grassland • Woodland and sporting potential In all about 489.43 acres (198.08 hectares) For sale as a whole or in 2 lots by private treaty For sale on behalf of LPA Receivers

Savills Central and West Savills Country Department The Quadrangle, 33 Margaret Street, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, London, Gloucestershire, GL50 1PZ W1G 0JD Will Chanter Richard Binning Giles Wordsworth Tel. 01242 548 036 Tel. 01865 269 179 Tel: 0207 075 2823 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text LOCATION Hilltop Farm is located in a picturesque rural setting about 4 miles from the town of Tenbury Wells, which is north west of Worcester and south west of Birmingham. Tenbury Wells includes a good range of amenities expected of a market town and more extensive shopping and leisure is found at Hereford, Worcester and . Rochford and Tenbury Wells offer C of E primary schools, and Tenbury Wells two secondary schools (one private and one state). Private schooling is available at Moor Park, Hall, Malvern, Kings School, Worcester and Hereford Cathedral School. By Road: Tenbury Wells: About 4 miles Worcester: About 18 miles Birmingham: About 35 miles London: About 142 miles By Train: Birmingham to London Victoria from 1 hr 37 mins Worcester Shrub Hill to London Paddington from 2 hr 7 mins By Air: Birmingham Airport: about 46 miles Approximate distances and times

Hilltop Farm Extending to about 489 acres (198 hectares) in all, Hilltop Farm is a commercial and residential farm with a large farmhouse and 5 other cottages occupying a stunning location rising above the Teme Valley close to the Worcestershire/ Herefordshire border. The farm is mainly arable with areas of grass and pockets of woodland, which would suit a farm shoot. The arable land is used in rotation and much is capable of growing potatoes. The farm buildings are located around a large concrete yard and include three large potatoes stores as well as a workshop, livestock buildings and traditional farm buildings. A significant rental income is generated from the variety of lettings, including holiday lets on three of the cottages. Hilltop Farm is offered for sale as a whole or in two lots by private treaty:

Lot 1 Hilltop Farm, Farm Buildings, 1 & 2 Hilltop Cottages, Hunters Moon and The Chestnuts. About 479.84 acres (194.20 hectares)

Lot 2 Hollywall Cottage and about 9.59 acres (3.881 hectares)

Hilltop Farmhouse, Bromyard Road, Sutton, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8SR Gross Internal Area (approx) = 670 sq m / 7212 sq ft (Excluding Void) For identification only. Not to scale. © Floorplanz Ltd

Main House Approximate Gross Internal Area: 670sq m/ 7212sq ft. = Reduced headroom below 1.5m / 5'0

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Utility 5.93 x 1.69 Void 19'5 x 5'7 Bedroom 9 Entrance Hall Dn Dining Room 3.78 x 2.12 Bedroom 3 Dn 12'5 x 6'11 Bedroom 4 6.11 x 4.90 Bedroom 5 Up 6.37 x 5.19 Bedroom 2 5.67 x 3.97 20'1 x 16'1 6.78 x 4.35 T 20'11 x 17'0 8.13 x 6.02 18'7 x 13'0 Up 22'3 x 14'3 Kitchen / 26'8 x 19'9 Breakfast Room 5.92 x 4.58 19'5 x 15'0

Dressing Room Dn Up 3.07 x 2.78 10'1 x 9'1

Dn Void Bedroom 1 Drawing Room 4.89 x 4.13 Bedroom Bedroom 6 Study 6.13 x 4.87 16'1 x 13'7 Dn 6.20 x 4.98 Up 5.15 x 3.65 Bedroom 7 Dn 4.91 x 3.24 Entrance Hall 20'1 x 16'0 Dn 20'4 x 16'4 16'1 x 10'8 16'11 x 12'0 5.48 x 3.82 Up Up 18'0 x 12'6

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Sitting Room Bedroom 8 5.53 x 3.90 7.45 x 4.36 4.27 x 1.98 14'0 x 6'6 5.44 x 4.27 18'2 x 12'10 24'5 x 14'4 17'10 x 14'0

GroundGround Floor Floor First Floor Floor SecondSecond Floor Floor BLOCK PLAN N Lot 1 – Hilltop Farm, Farm Buildings, 1 & 2 Hilltop Cottages, DRAFT Hunters Moon and The Chestnuts. About 479 acres (194 hectares)

LB Main House Hilltop farm house is an attractive brick house of approx 7212 square feet. To the front of the Hunters property is a terrace providing a large outdoor dining area with outstanding views. The house has Moon 5 3 large gardens with borders and lawns. The ground floor comprises a large entrance hall leading to a drawing room with a decorative stone 2 6 Hill Top 7 fireplace and the dining room with a large feature brick fireplace. Both of these rooms are formal in 4 nature with high ceilings. The hall leads to a large kitchen with an oil fired four oven AGA, leading to 1 Garden additional utility rooms and rear hall. From the front hall a snug and an office are found. There is a Store substantial cellar. Upstairs there are a substantial number of bedrooms, a number of which have ensuite bathrooms Games House and are of a larger size. The Room 8a Chestnuts 8b Across the garden is a converted building used as a games room with small kitchen fitted out for 8c entertaining, WC and large entertaining room with French doors and wood burner.

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NOTE - Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Map with the permissionTrack of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. © Crown copyright licence number 100024244 Savills (UK) Limited NOTE - Published for the purposes of identification only and 1 Brick traditional farm building Substantial brick building partly converted to open although believed to be correct its accuracy is not guaranteed. MCL: 24770/BLOCK 1 Date: 17/05/18 The Cartographic & Design Team, Wessex House, Wimborne, Dorset. BH21 1PB Tel: (01202) 856800 NOT TO SCALE fronted garages, the adjoining un-converted building offers opportunity for a variety of alternative purposes.

2 Dutch barn with lean-to Steel frame with corrugated iron and fibre cement cladding and roof. Part block walling, part sleeper walling, internal grain divisions. Housing former grain drying system.

3 Cart Shed Traditional open front building of stone under a slate roof.

4 Livestock building Steel portal frame with fibre cement roof, block walling and wooden cladding.

5 Silage pit Concrete base, concrete panel walling.

6 A lean-to livestock building.

7 General Purpose farm building Steel Frame, fibre cement roof, concrete floor and part block walls. Used as a workshop and formerly for potato grading.

8 a/b/c Potato stores 3 insulated potato stores with climate control. Very large concrete apron in front, roller doors. Concrete floor. Capacity understood to be approx. 6,500 tonnes of potatoes.

There is a weighbridge in the farmyard (condition unknown) The Land Hunters Moon

Hilltop Cottages 1 and 2 A pair of semi-detached cottages each with kitchen and sitting room, two bedrooms and an upstairs bathroom. Outside there is a garden and a store with each cottage. Hunters Moon A large detached barn conversion the downstairs comprising a large kitchen, snug with a wood burner and two bedrooms. Upstairs comprises 5 bedrooms, 2 with ensuite bathrooms.

The Chestnuts A large detached barn conversion and partly walled garden. Rooms laid out as on the floorplan, including large kitchen with an AGA and sitting room with a wood burner. The Chestnuts The Land Hill Top Cottages 1 and 2 The land at Hilltop is undulating and largely arable, with grassland around the house. It is a red soil, typical of the area and primarily of the Bromyard series, which is well known for its productive capacity for growing cereals and short term grassland. In addition the land benefits from a number of parcels of woodland and the topography of the farm would lend itself well to a shoot, which historically there was on the farm.

Lot 2- Hollywall Cottage and Land Hollywall Cottage is a detached house in a lovey rural position with excellent views over the surrounding land. Hollywall comprises a large kitchen, sitting room and bedroom on the ground floor with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms upstairs. The cottage has been used for holiday lets, for a number of years. Outside there is a large garden and a paddock and extends to about 9.59 acres in all. The Land Lot 2 - Hollywall Cottage Chestnuts Hollywall Cottage

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Hunters Moon Cottage 1 First Floor

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Approximate Gross Internal Area: Hunters Moon: 228.1 sq.m. / 2455 sq.ft. Cottage 1: 67.8 sq.m. / 730 sq.ft. Hollywall Cottage: 191.8 sq.m. / 2064 sq.ft. Chestnuts: 315.4 sq.m. / 3395 sq.ft. Hill Top House 2 Hill Top Cottage 1 Hill Top Cottage Chestnuts Hollywall Hunters Moon GENERAL REMARKS AND STIPULATIONS Wayleaves, Easements and Rights of Way Fixtures and Fittings The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all rights, Items mentioned in these sale particulars are included in the Tenure and Possession including rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, freehold sale. All other fixtures, fittings and furnishings are expressly The freehold of the property is offered for sale with vacant drainage, water and electricity supplies and any other rights and excluded from the sale, although some may be available by possession subject to: obligations, easements and proposed wayleaves for masts, pylons, separate negotiation. stays, cables, drains and water, gas and other pipes, whether Hilltop Cottage 2 - subject to an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Minerals referred to in the Conditions of Sale or not. Farmland - subject to short term cropping licences In so far as they are owned they are included in the sale of the There are a number of footpaths and bridleways that cross the property. property, as shown on the sale plan. Basic Payment Scheme Sporting Rights No Entitlements are included in the sale. If the farm is sold in Lots, a number of other rights of way and access may need to be created for the practical enjoyment of the It is understood that sporting rights are included in the sale of the property. Soils property and to accommodate rights within existing tenancies. According to the Soil Survey of and Wales, the majority of Value Added Tax (VAT) Services and Council Tax / Business Rates the farm lies over Bromyard soil, with the remainder belonging to Any guide prices quoted or discussed are exclusive of VAT. In the This sale is being conducted on behalf of LPA Receivers and very Middleton soils. Bromyard is well drained reddish fine silty soil over event of a sale of the property or any part of it, or any right attached little background information is available. To assist buyers the shale and siltstone. It is good for growing cereals and short term to it becoming a chargeable event for purposes of VAT, such tax Agents have tried to ascertain heating appliances and services to would be payable in addition to the purchase price. grassland. Middleton is also over shale and siltstone and is good properties. Interested parties should be aware that such services at stock rearing on short term or permanent grassland. The land is have not been checked and may be altogether incorrect. This Method of Sale shown as being predominantly Grade 3 with some areas of Grade table is meant as a guide only and buyers must make their own The property is to be sold as a whole or in two lots by private treaty. 2 on the Agricultural Land Classification Maps. investigations. Solicitors Ingoing Tenant Right Council Property Heating Services Eversheds Sutherland The Purchaser(s) shall, in addition to the purchase price, take over Tax Bridgewater Place, Water Lane, Leeds, LS11 5DR and pay for the following items of tenant right: Hilltop Oil fired Telecommunications Band G Tel. 0113 200 4500 Attn. Paul Dutton • Hay and straw, if any, at market value; House central heating Single phase electricity Private drainage Viewing • Consumables and all other stores including feed stuffs, seed, The Oil Aga Telecommunications Band G fertilizers and fuel, including domestic oil at cost; Chestnuts Oil fired Single phase electricity Viewings are strictly by appointment only with Savills. central heating Private drainage Ingoing Tenant Right values to be agreed and paid on the date of Given the potential hazards of a working farm, viewers should completion. VAT will be payable where applicable. Hunters Oil fired Telecommunications Band G take care and precaution with regard to their personal safety when Moon central heating Single phase electricity viewing the farm, particularly around vehicles, farm machinery and Holdover Private drainage buildings. The farm is sold subject to a holdover for the purposes of Cottages 1 Oil fired Telecommunications Band C Directions and 2 central heating Single phase electricity harvesting the growing crops. From Tenbury Wells take the B4204 towards Upper Rochford. Private drainage Continue through Upper Rochford and follow the road. After about Town and Country Planning Hollywall Oil fired Telecommunications Business 1.5 miles you will go uphill and as you get to the top the farm and Interested parties are advised to make their own enquiries in Cottage central heating Single phase electricity Rates house is set back to the right hand side. respect of any planning issues and development opportunities Private drainage Postcode relating to Hilltop Farm, and any part of it, direct to It is understood that the water supply is a private borehole. District Council. WR15 8SR It is assumed that business rates rather than council tax is paid on Property reference – OXR180007 Local Authorities the properties let as holiday properties. Particulars prepared – June 2018 Council Tel. 01684 862221 If the farm is sold in Lots, cross-rights may be granted between Worcestershire County Council Tel. 01905 763763 Lots to facilitate access to services. Photographs taken – May 2018 Hollywall Cottage

Lot 2 - Hollywall Cottage

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. BROCHUREREF Kingfisher Print and Design Ltd. 01803 867087. Khandala Rosedene Pond (um) Path Stone Barn

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