FARM POTENCIAL

AGRADE II listed farm on the outskirts of Cardiff is looking for a renovation hero to bring it back to life as four new homes. Bridge Farm is a plot containing a substantial country farmhouse and agricultural building for sale that comes with planning permission for four semidetached dwellings.

The planning sees the farmhouse divided into two semi-detached homes; one three-bed and one two-bed.

The designs of both of these homes within the listed property includes a downstairs cloakroom, lounge, dining room and lounge on the ground floor.

Also on the site is a traditional stonebuilt former agricultural building that also has planning for division and conversion into two dwellings.

Again, the approved designs produce one three-bed semi-detached home and one two-bed semi-detached home.

The estate agent selling this residential development plot in Cardiff states that the planning consent has approved two designated parking spaces for each residential unit and each home will also benefit from a private garden.

The access to the site will be off Bridge Road, leading to an access driveway within the ownership of Bridge Farm and shared between both properties.

Years ago, driving around the dark lanes on the very edge of north east Cardiff once you’d left Old St Mellons behind you, you might stumble upon a solo cottage before reaching the The Unicorn village pub that is now closed.

But now you’ll be guided most of the way by street lights to the area around the Cardiff Gate junction of the M4 due to the massive expansion of the north east of the capital.

A couple of decades ago Pontprennau began to emerge, next to Pentwyn, and now a new suburb has been rising up from the former country fields to create the new suburb of St Edeyrn’s Village.

The development is part of Cardiff

County Council’s Local Development Plan (LDP), making the city around 30% bigger across the area than it was before.

Areas under construction include Plasdwr to the west, Churchlands located between Lisvane and Pontprennau, and this substantial section of land to the north east that is now St Edeyrn’s Village.

This totally new suburb was named after the 6th century monk St Edeyrn, who also gives his name to the nearby Llanedeyrn estate and its parish church.

A large section of land labelled “G” on the city-wide master plan, sandwiched between Pontprennau and Old St Mellons, has been redeveloped over a number of years.

Nearing completion, the site has expanded the tiny hamlet of St Edeyrn’s Village into an area of 1,300 homes built predominantly by Persimmon and Charles Church.

The construction is over six phases which is due to be finished in 2026 with phase five currently being built.

Persimmon Homes is building up to 1,020 new homes at this site, comprising two, three and four bedroom homes.

The company states the purposebuilt village will provide home buyers with local facilities, including a primary school, local shops, allotments, a community orchard and a landscaped riverside park running along the Rhymney River.

Sister construction company Charles Church has been building a site called River Walk as part of the St Edeyrn’s Village development which is now complete.

So now the period property has neighbours – situated at the crest of the wave of the adjacent new build homes flooding the fields around it.

But instead of sliding into possible dereliction, Bridge Farm is going to be welcoming four new residents to this new suburb with this vintage property at its heart.

For further details about Bridge Farm contact estate agent DJ&P Newland Rennie, Magor on 01633 880220.