Properties of the week
Five picturesque farms and farmhouses
Lanarkshire, offers over £900,000
A dream restoration project for any countryman, the historic house within Leadloch Farm’s 382 undulating acres is derelict and ripe for investment, with interesting period features and stoneinscribed coat-of-arms of the Waddell family. Traditional farm buildings need TLC, too, but there’s a productive livestock unit, pasture, rough grazing and amenity woodland. The village of Fauldhouse is about a mile away (with rail links to Edinburgh and Glasgow) and Livingston is 13 miles away. Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park are not far to the northwest. Galbraith (01786 434600)
Aberdeenshire, £720,000
In 1889, the young English wife of Sir Arthur Grant, 9th Baronet of Monymusk, was so displeased by the buildings of north-east Scotland that her husband was persuaded to rebuild their house in the style of her native Cotswolds. Without any insult to Scottish architecture, we do appreciate the pretty Victorian house at Woodhead Farm, which has a cottagey charm that belies the roomy five bedrooms within. Near Inverurie, it has 43 acres of land, good for barley, oats, grass, potatoes or forage crops, and various modern farm buildings. On the market as a whole or in two lots. Bell Ingram (01224 621 300 )
Devon, £1.95 million
A compact estate on Exmoor, Wilsham Farm is near the coast and the East Lyn river, next to ancient, National Trust-owned woodland. The pretty 17th-/18th-century Grade Ii-listed farmhouse has five bedrooms and an indoor pool. The property includes Swallow’s Rest—a five-bedroom cottage, currently let—a barn fit for conversion and two stable blocks. The 70 acres of land are mostly pasture, with potential to be a family shoot. Pritchard & Company (01608 801030)
Gloucestershire, £3.25 million
Mill Hill Farm, just outside the National Trust-owned village of Sherborne, is available as a whole with 11 acres or in two lots. Lot 1 is the Grade Ii-listed, five-bedroom farmhouse, with ancient orchard, paddock and ‘shambling garden’, plus planning permission for a garden-room extension. Barns, stables and courtyard make up Lot 2, also with permission for conversion into a family house, plus separate access, a coach house and paddock with river frontage. Butler Sherborne (01993 822325)
Co Durham, £865,000
Set within the North Pennines AONB, about 11 miles from Hexham, three-bedroom Bale Hill Farmhouse comes with a luxury holiday cottage and a barn with permission for conversion to a two-bedroom property. Close to the conservation village of Blanchland, often called one of the prettiest in England, the house is surrounded by open heather moors and woodland. Bale Hill is inside a UNESCO Global Geo-park with Dark Sky status, one of only two such sites in England. Finest Properties (01434 622234)