A mainline railway station can be found at both Bodmin Parkway and Liskeard, with access onto one of the main arterial routes throughout Cornwall, the A38, a short distance.
Further afield is Plymouth, known as ‘The Ocean City’, which offers a wider range of facilities, continental ferry port and link to the motorway network at Exeter via the Devon Expressway. A regional airport can be found at Newquay being approximately 25 miles.
The rugged expanse of Bodmin Moor is a short distance providing excellent walking and riding opportunities, as well as many picturesque moorland villages. The south Cornish coastline is also easily accessible, offering sandy beaches, coastal footpath, water sports and pretty towns and villages.
Introduction
Approached off a quiet parish road, Fern Hill Farm offers versality, with opportunities to develop and add value. There is a principal two bedroom lodge, permission for a farm dwelling and further permission for a caravan (see ‘Planning’ below). The farm is ‘off grid’ with private services . There is a good range of buildings used for agricultural and equestrian purposes; one building is partially converted to provide office and general storage accommodation. The land extends in all to approximately 60 acres comprising productive pastures, with areas of amenity and sporting land.
The Lodge
The Lodge provides the principal accommodation on the farm and benefits from double glazing and a central heating system. The Lodge provides very comfortable living accommodation, briefly comprising a Utility Room, Sitting Room, Kitchen, Bathroom and Two Bedrooms (one en suite).
The Buildings
The buildings are used for agricultural and equestrian purposes and are accessed just off the parish road, leading onto hardcore yard areas.
The buildings comprise the following: -
1. Timber portal frame and box profile roof Loose House (13.71m x 10.97m).
2. Timber portal frame and corrugated roof building divided internally to provide Stabling, Fodder and General Storage (22.86m x 22.86m).
3. Timber portal frame and corrugated roof Loose House and Cattle Handling (22.86m x 7.62m).
4. Steel portal frame and cement fibre roof with part concrete walls building divided to provide Three Open Bays of Machinery and Fodder Storage, Two Enclosed Workshops with sliding doors and further bay of Office and General Storage Rooms (36.57m x 15.24m).
The Land
Fern Hill Farm extends in all to approximately 60.29 acres comprising 37 acres of gently sloping productive pasture land and 21 acres of amenity sporting land, running down into a pretty valley stream boundary. Noting the amenity land has been previously used for motorcross.
Planning
The planning position offering significant scope to develop and add value to Fern Hill Farm and can be summarised as follows:-
1. Certificate of Lawfulness for Existing Use or Development, where the First Schedule confirms the ‘Certificate of Lawfulness for existing use of the land for the stationing of 2 caravans for residential purposes’. This relating to The Lodge and a further mobile home positioned close by.
2. Outline Application for ‘Erection of an agricultural bungalow’ (Decision No. 90/1118), with further Notice of Approval of Matters Reserved by Outline Permission and subsequent Notice of Approval of Plans.
The approved plans indicate a detached bungalow providing kitchen, sitting room, four bedrooms, snug, study and entrance hallway. Works commenced, with foundations completed.
Therefore, there are three lawful residential units at Fern Hill Farm. Further details of the planning documents are available at the selling agent’s Liskeard office and prospective purchasers to make their own enquiries in relation to the planning permission generally.
Other Information
Tenure: The farm is freehold with vacant possession upon completion.
Farm Plan: The farm plan is based on Ordnance Survey extracts and the areas are not guaranteed. Purchasers must satisfy themselves as to their accuracy.
Easements, Wayleaves, Rights of Way: The property is offered for sale, subject to and with the benefit of all matters contained in or referred to in the Property and Charges Register of the registered title together with all public or private rights of way, wayleaves, easements and other rights of way, which cross the property.
Boundaries: Any purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of all boundaries and neither Vendor nor the Vendor’s agents will be responsible for defining the boundaries or the ownership thereof. Should any dispute arise as to the boundaries or any points on the particulars or plans or the interpretation of them, the question shall be referred to the Vendor’s agent whose decision acting as experts shall be final.
Services: The farm is considered to be off grid, with a private borehole water system; electricity supplied by PV and battery storage, with back up generator and a private drainage system.
Local Authority: Cornwall Council, Chy Trevail, Beacon Technology Park, Bodmin, Cornwall PL31 2FR.
Council Tax Band:
The Lodge
Band ‘A’.
Photographs:
Taken in November 2024.
Directions
Please see the Location Plan with these particulars.
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Viewings
Strictly by prior appointment with the Selling Agent, Kivells, 7-8 Bay Tree Hill, Liskeard, Cornwall PL14 4BE.
