Sold! Has Guilsfield farm finally gone?

A Guilsfield farm complex that had been on the market for several years appears to have finally been sold after being made available in three lots.

The former tenant farms will be sold by Powys County Council and could make the authority up to £650,000 after Council Leader, Councillor Rosemarie Harris, took the decision today (Thursday) to sell Garth and Heylin near the village.

However, the details of the sale are restricted due to confidentiality reasons.

The buildings were constructed around 1850 and were to be a model farm specialising in traditional farming methods for the Mytton family of Garth.

On the PCC website, the farms had been described as a “substantial range of Grade II listed buildings, two houses, woodland and paddocks”.

They had been split into three lots, with PCC recommending a sale price of £345,000 for Garth farmhouse along with its associated farm buildings, woodland and paddocks of around 10 acres.

Heylin Farmhouse, and just under two acres of paddocks, had a guide price of £249,000.

The walled garden, woodland and paddocks extending to over six acres had been priced at £45,000.

Under council rules the decision will not come into force for five days unless it is called in for scrutiny.

The buildings were listed in 1995 because they are of architectural and historic interest due to its association to J.C Loudon who was a prominent figure in the design of farm buildings in the early nineteenth century. He had designed a house, stables and kennels for the family.

The house and stables were demolished in the 1940s with the kennels surviving.

By Elgan Hearn, Local Democracy Reporter