Rare opportunity to buy pretty South Shropshire smallholding

A rare chance to buy a smallholding set in beautiful South Shropshire countryside is being offered by rural agents, Halls.

Buyers are being encouraged to check out Bromleys Mill at Lydham, near Bishops Castle, described by Halls director James F. Evans as “a highly desirable, rural smallholding with a period, listed country cottage, traditional farm buildings and nearly 46 acres of pastureland”.

The property, which has a guide price of £750,000 as a whole, is being sold by informal tender as whole or in three lots on behalf of the executors of the late Graham Burden and the E. R. Burden Will Trust.

Lot one, which has a guide price of £450,000, includes the pretty, detached, two or three bedroomed stone cottage which requires comprehensive modernisation and refurbishment, 16.25 acres of pastureland and a range of traditional and modern farm buildings set around a yard.

Built in 1845, the cottage is Grade II listed and has dining and living rooms with open fires, kitchen, bathroom, wc, bedroom, rear hall and porch on the ground floor and two further bedrooms upstairs. Cottage style gardens to the front and side are now overgrown.

Requiring maintenance and improvement, the buildings comprise traditional stone and timber barns with conversion potential, subject to planning consent, timber pole machinery stores, a Dutch barn and a steel portal framed livestock barn.

The land is divided into conveniently sized enclosures and is suitable for grazing most types of livestock including horses. 

The other two lots comprise 11.57 and 18.11-acre blocks of pastureland, respectively. Divided into three well-proportioned fields, lot two has a guide price of £180,000 and been used predominantly for silage and hay making in recent years but is suitable for grazing livestock and horses.

The land in lot three, which has guide price of £120,000, has roadside access and is divided into four enclosures with natural water supply and has been grazed by sheep and cattle.

Prospective purchasers must submit their tenders to Halls, 14 Broad Street, Welshpool by letter or email welshpool@hallsgb.com by noon on Friday, May 23. Viewing is by appointment only with Halls on Tel: 01938 555552.