LOWER BERROW FARM HAM GREEN • FECKENHAM • WORCESTERSHIRE / WARWICKSHIRE BORDER LOWER BERROW FARM HAM GREEN • FECKENHAM WORCESTERSHIRE/WARWICKSHIRE BORDER • B97 5TT Quintessential mixed farm with holiday cottages 4 bedroom Grade II Listed farmhouse Four 2 bedroom holiday cottages Former threshing barn with development potential Extensive range of livestock buildings 750 tonne grain store Arable and pasture About 314 acres (127.09 hectares) For sale as a whole by private treaty savills.co.uk Savills Banbury Savills Cheltenham Savills Oxford 36 South Bar, Banbury The Quadrangle, Imperial Square Wytham Court, 11 West Way OX16 9AE Cheltenham GL50 1PZ Oxford OX2 0QL Tel. 01295 228050 Tel. 01242 548036 Tel. 01865 269179 Contact: Philip Hoare Contact: Will Chanter Contact: Richard Binning [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] YOUR ATTENTION IS DRAWN TO THE IMPORTANT NOTICE ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE TEXT LOCATION APPROXIMATE DISTANCES AND TIMES Located near to the hamlet of Ham Green to the south west of Redditch By Road: in Worcestershire and close to the county border with Warwickshire, • Redditch: 5.1 miles (8.2 km) Lower Berrow Farm lies in the parish of Feckenham. • Alcester: 7.9 miles (12.7 km) • Droitwich Spa: 9.0 miles (14.5 km) Feckenham is a popular village with a village shop and cafe • Stratford-upon-Avon: 15.4 miles (24.9 km) (http://www.feckenhamshop.co.uk), two public houses (the Rose & • Worcester: 15.6 miles (25.2 km) Crown and the Forest at Feckenham), a C of E primary school and doctors surgery. Alcester, Droitwich Spa and Redditch offer a wide range By Train: of supermarkets (including Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco). Further • Redditch to Birmingham New Street from 37 mins afield, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcester and Birmingham offer more • Birmingham New Street to London Euston from 1 hr 13 mins extensive shopping, leisure and cultural facilities. • Warwick Parkway (20.4 miles) to London Marylebone from 1 hr 15 mins By Air: • Birmingham International Airport: 24.4 miles (39.2 km) DESCRIPTION Lower Berrow Farm Extending to about 314 acres (127.9 hectares), Lower Berrow Farm is a ring- fenced mixed farm with a Grade II Listed four bedroom farmhouse, four holiday cottages, former threshing barn, an extensive range of farm buildings, arable and pasture land. The farmstead is situated at the centre of the farm and is accessed via a concrete road from the public highway. The farm once formed part of the Hanbury Hall Estate, now a National Trust property 5 miles away. Owned by the Vernon family, the Estate had extended to some 8,000 acres in the 18th Century. Lower Berrow Farm, formerly known as Armers House, is understood to have been one of their tenanted farms. Lower Berrow Farm is offered for sale as a whole by private treaty. Lower Berrow Farmhouse With the oldest elements dating back to the late 16th Century, Lower Berrow Farmhouse is an attractive four bedroom farmhouse enjoying views over the farm. The part-timbered house is Grade II Listed and built of brick and sandstone with a tiled roof. The farmhouse has a wealth of period features including exposed timbers, inglenook fireplace and original meat hooks. The ground floor comprises the entrance hall, kitchen/breakfast room (with 2-door Aga), dining room (with hatch to cellar), living room (with inglenook fireplace and a wood-burning stove), sitting room, utility room, boot room, store and outside WC. A timber staircase leads to the first floor which has four double bedrooms. One bedroom has an en suite shower room and WC and there is a family bathroom. A further staircase leads to the second floor and four attic rooms. Subject to securing the necessary consents, the house offers scope for modernisation through altering the layout of the ground floor and the creation of further bedrooms on the second floor. The house is surrounded by gardens principally laid to lawn. There is an orchard and vegetable garden to the east of the farmhouse. Immediately to the north of the farmhouse are a number of stores, former piggeries, kennels and a garage. Ground Floor First Floor Not shown in actual location/orientation First Floor Second Floor Cellar Ground Floor LOWER BERROW FARM Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area Main House - 379.89 sq m (4,089.10 sq ft) Holiday Cottages (including Hot Tub) - 368.51 sq m (3,966.60 sq ft) Threshing Barn - 248.59 sq m (2,675.8 sq ft) Main House Outbuildings - 94.66 sq m (10,18.91 sq ft) The Swallows Total - 1,092 sq m (11,750 sq ft) Ground Floor The Owlets Not to scale. For identification purposes only. Hot Tub The Skylarks The Partridge Threshing Barn Piggeries/Kennels Not shown in actual location/orientation First Floor Not shown in actual location/orientation The Owlets Farmhouse Farmhouse The Owlets Holiday Cottages There are four holiday cottages at Lower Berrow Farm, sympathetically converted from a range of traditional farm buildings and forming a courtyard to the rear of the farmhouse. The cottages are accessed via a spur off the main driveway, providing privacy and separation from the farmhouse and farm buildings. The four cottages include: The Swallows: a two storey semi-detached cottage with a kitchen, sitting room and WC on the ground floor and two bedrooms, both with en suite shower room with WC, upstairs; The Owlets: a two storey semi-detached cottage with a kitchen, sitting room and WC on the ground floor and two bedrooms, one with en suite shower room with WC, and a family bathroom upstairs; The Skylarks: a single storey cottage with an open plan kitchen / sitting room, two bedrooms, one with en suite bathroom, and a family shower room with WC; The Partridge: a single storey cottage with an open plan kitchen / sitting room with two bedrooms, one with en suite shower room with WC, and a family bathroom. All of the cottages have a wood-burning stove and under-floor heating, together with sofa- beds or day beds for additional guests. Outside the cottages share communal gardens and an enclosed play area. There is a hot tub in a converted barn with with under-floor heating and French windows overlooking the farm. The cottages are generally let for a minimum of three nights and the current weekly tariffs are summarised in the table below. Cottage Bedrooms / Sleeps 2017 Weekly Tariff The Swallows 2 / sleeps 4-7 £350 to £545 The Owlets 2 / sleeps 5-7 £350 to £545 The Skylarks 2 / sleeps 4-7 £350 to £545 The Partridge 2 / sleeps 4 plus cot £300 to £500 Further information on the cottages can be found on the website www.lowerberrowcottages.co.uk Planning permission was granted on 28th June 2010 under Application 2010/097/FUL for the “conversion of redundant stables and wagon shed to four ‘holiday-let’ dwellings and associated site works”. Since their conversion, occupation rates have been high and the business generates a good annual profit. Detailed accounts are available on request. Threshing Barn The former threshing barn, with distinctive air vented walls, lends itself to other uses such as further holiday cottages or party venue, subject to securing the necessary planning consents. Of brick and tile construction, the building is currently used as the farm office, laundry room, farm workshop and general storage. Above the office and laundry room, there is a loft area. FARM BUILDINGS The farm buildings comprise a range of predominately modern farm buildings including: • Grain store: a 4-bay steel portal frame building with concrete block walls, concrete floor, profile tin clad, fibre cement roof and sliding doors. Currently split into 3-bays by concrete panels. Measures about 18.5m x 25m. • Sheep yard: a 6-bay steel portal frame covered yard with central concrete feed passage, stone floors and fibre cement roof. Measures about 27m x 27.5m with a 3m x 20m lean-to. • General purpose store: a 6-bay steel portal frame building with 6m eaves, fibre cement roof, stone floor and timber weather boarding on the western gable end. Measures about 18.5m x 37m. • Old workshop: a concrete portal frame building with concrete block walls, concrete floor and fibre cement roof. Measures about 6m x 18.5m. • Straw Shed: two 3-bay Dutch Barns and an adjoining 4-bay Dutch Barn with lean-to, with corrugated iron roofs and stone floors. Measure about 15.25m x 14m and 14m x 18m respectively. • General purpose stores: two buildings of steel lattice frame construction with concrete block walls, corrugated iron cladding, concrete floor and fibre cement roof. Measure about 14m x 12.25m and 18.5m x 7.5m with a 7.5m x 7.5m extension. • Grain bins: a building containing five redundant steel grain bins (2.5m x 2.5m x 4.5m high) with a concrete floor and fibre cement roof. Measures about 6m x 12.5m. • Cattle yard: two 6-bay steel portal frame covered cattle yards with external feed gates, concrete floor and fibre cement roof. Measures about 28.25m x 46.25m. • Silage clamp: with concrete railway sleeper walls to 2.5m and a concrete floor. Measures about 13.5m x 24m. Around the buildings are a variety of concrete yards and stoned yards. Situated to the west of the farm buildings is a dirty water tank with a capacity of about 3,600 gallons (16,365 litres). FARMLAND The farmland extends to about 307.7 acres (124.5 hectares) which can be broken into: • Arable and grass leys: 248.9 acres (100.7 hectares) • Permanent pasture: 58.8 acres (23.8 hectares).