CLOSING DATE – 12 NOON WEDNESDAY 29TH JULY 2020
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION
An exciting opportunity to acquire an excellent residential livestock farm in an easily accessible location.
Five residential dwellings, farm buildings, silage and grazing land extending to approximately 86.08 hectares (212.70 acres) in total.
Situation
Knowehead & Hartree Farm is located to the south of the town of Biggar in the Scottish Borders. This location affords excellent access and transport links with the A702 just over 1 mile to the north leading to the M74 just 11 miles to the south west.
Directions
From Glasgow head south on the M74 to Junction 13, exit onto the A702 and continue north east and just before Biggar take a right on to Hartree Entries Road signed for Broughton. Follow this road and at the junction take a right on to Boghall Road. Continue on this road until the next junction, and take a right towards Coulter. The property is immediately on your right.
From the A720 City of Edinburgh City Bypass take the A702 south west to Biggar and at the end of the high street take a left onto Station Road leading to Boghall Road for approximately 2 miles and then at the junction take a right towards Coulter. The property is immediately on your right.
From the Scottish Borders to the south, take the A72 through Peebles and on to Biggar. At the end of the high street in Biggar take a left onto Station Road leading to Boghall Road for approximately 2 miles and then at the junction take the right towards Coulter. The property is then immediately on your right.
Description
The property extends to approximately 86.08 hectares (212.07 acres) in total of which is predominantly permanent pasture extending to approximately 83.45 hectares (206.20 acres) ranging in quality from mowable grassland to hill, which is interspersed with shelterbelt woodlands, lending itself ideally to livestock production. A useful yard and farm building provides an area to handle livestock and store feedstuffs. There are five residential properties, two of which are let and provide a valuable rental income. The principle Farmhouse, Mill House and a further cottage are vacant in order to meet a purchasers potential requirements.
Farmhouse (Council Tax Band – F) (EPC Rating – F)
The farmhouse is a two storey traditional stone built house boasting a lovely garden to the front. The ground floor comprises 2 principle reception rooms, large kitchen dining area including fully fitted kitchen with double Aga cooker. The ground floor also benefits from a downstairs shower room, under stair storage cupboard and hallway. On the first floor there are two double bedrooms and a family bathroom.
Accessed externally there is a further studio room which also has a WC offering a range of potential uses, from games room to office space.
The farmhouse benefits from oil fired central heating, double glazing throughout, water supply from the spring, drainage to a septic tank and mains electricity.
Mill House (Council Tax Band – G) (EPC Rating – F)
The Mill House is a two storey barn conversion. There is a lovely garden to the rear of the property enclosed by a beech hedge. The ground floor comprises a large kitchen/living/dining area with built in kitchen units and floor to ceiling windows looking out over the countryside. There is also a shower room, storage cupboard, utility room and pantry.
The main hallway and staircase lead to the first floor where there is a reception room/study with access to the garden through the conservatory. The hallway leads to the two double bedrooms and the master bedroom all with en-suites. The master bedroom also benefits from floor to ceiling windows looking over the countryside.
The Mill House benefits from oil fired central heating, double glazing throughout, water supply from the spring, drainage to a septic tank and mains electricity.
Knowehead Cottage 1 (Council Tax Band – B) (EPC Rating – E)
Cottage 1 is a 1 bedroom semi detached barn conversion. The property briefly comprises a kitchen, living room, double bedroom with built in wardrobes and a bathroom incorporating W.C, wash hand basin and bath with shower. The property has night storage heaters, water supply from the spring, drainage to a septic tank, mains electricity and double glazing.
Knowehead Cottage 2 (Council Tax Band – C) (EPC Rating – E)
Cottage 2 is a 2 bedroom semi detached barn conversion. The property briefly compromises an open plan kitchen/living/dining room. Hallway to the two double bedrooms with built-in wardrobes and bathroom incorporating W.C, wash hand basin and bath. The property has night storage heaters, water supply from the spring, drainage to a septic tank, mains electricity and double glazing.
Knowehead Cottage 3 (Council Tax Band – E) (EPC Rating – F)
Cottage 3 is a 3 bedroom detached cottage. The property briefly comprises a kitchen with fitted units, living room, two double bedrooms, a single bedroom and a family bathroom incorporating W.C, wash hand basin and shower cubicle. The property has night storage heaters, water supply from the spring, drainage to a septic tank, mains electricity and double glazing.
Buildings
There is a useful agricultural shed which comprises a steel portal framed Dutch barn with a corrugated tin roof and two adjoining timber framed lean-tos with tin corrugated roofs. The building has been used by the previous grazing tenant to store straw/silage and to house/handle livestock. There is also a good hardstanding area surrounding the building used as a yard.
Within the traditional range there is a an old byre and a double garage which are both utilised for storage and have previously been let in association with the Farmhouse and Mill House respectively.
Farmland
The land is made up of permanent pasture ranging from hill to mowable grassland with shelterbelt woodlands extending to approximately 85.28 hectares (210.72 acres) ranging in height from 210m to 380m above sea level. The higher land is ideally suited for outwintering and the lower land lending itself to being cut for hay or silage with good livestock grazing land in between.