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Strutt & Parker - Edinburgh
28 Melville Street, Edinburgh
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CLOSING DATE: NOON ON FRIDAY 8 AUGUST 2008.
A productive arable farm with full planning permission for a farm house on a superb site overlooking St Andrews Bay
Lot 1 - Offers over £800,000
Lot 2 - Offers invited
St Andrews 4 miles, Cupar 5 miles, Perth 27 miles, Edinburgh 49 miles
Easter Clatto is situated in the attractive and unspoilt countryside of Fife's East Neuk. The area has a reputation for a productive, high quality farmland, with a well developed agricultural infrastructure, including a number of grain, potato, fruit and agricultural machinery merchants.
There are excellent connections to all parts of the country with a mainline railway station at Leuchars (4 miles) and the national motorway network at Perth (27 miles). In addition, there are regular shuttle flights to London from Dundee airport (14 miles). The A92 trunk road is 9 miles distant, which provides good access to the major population centres in Fife and the central belt.
Blebocraigs has a village hall and a post office while Strathkinness (2 miles) has a primary school, village shop and a church. The popular and historic town of St Andrews (4 miles) provides a wide range of services and facilities, including supermarkets, high street shops, cinema, banks and an array of cafes and restaurants. The town is also home to the famous university and several golf courses including The Old Course, the venue for the 2010 Open Championship.
In terms of education, there is an excellent state secondary school in St Andrews, with private education at St Leonards in St Andrews and the High School of Dundee. For the sports enthusiast, the farm is ideally placed for the several golf courses and driving range in St Andrews. There are excellent beaches at St Andrews and Tentsmuir, along with a network or rural footpaths. For those keen on country sports, there are several trout fisheries within 1 hours drive and there is walked-up and driven game shooting available to let locally.
Farming System
The land at Easter Clatto lies between 295 feet and 460 feet above sea level, and has an average annual rainfall of 29 inches. Traditionally the farming system has focused upon the production of spring and winter cereals and oats with break crops of oil seed rape, potatoes and grass. However, the land is extremely versatile and is capable of growing a wider range of crops if required. The average yields are as follows:
Winter wheat 4 - 4.5 tonnes per acre
Oats 2.5 - 3 tonnes per acre
Oil Seed Rape 1.8 tonnes per acre
Lot 1 - House Site and Farmland
About 181.47 acres
House Site
A planning application (Ref:04/03278/EFULL) was submitted on 21 October 2004, requesting permission to build a single storey, 4 bedroom farmhouse on an elevated site to the west of the farm buildings. This application was provisionally approved by Fife Council subject to a Section 75 Legal Agreement, the conditions of which are as follows:
(i) An Agricultural Occupancy Restriction is placed on the new farmhouse.
(ii) The new farmhouse cannot be sold separately from the land.
The Section 75 Legal Agreement has now been signed and is available for inspection at the offices of the selling agent.
The site benefits from stunning views over St Andrews Bay and the house has been designed to take full advantage of these. The accommodation will comprise:
Hall, lounge, dining room, kitchen, utility room, WC, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, two bedrooms with en-suite facilities, a further bedroom and WC. Integral double garage.
A plan of the proposed accommodation is enclosed within the brochure.
Farmland
The land at Easter Clatto is principally graded Class 3 (1) by the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research. This class is defined as land capable of producing a wide range of crops. The land is principally of the Rowanhill/Giffnock/Winton series of which the component soils are brown forest soils with some gleys. The land in general has a good working depth and is relatively stone free.
The land on the farm can be analysed as follows:
Land Type Acres Hectares
Arable 179.15 72.50
Rough Grazings 1.46 0.59
Roads/Buildings/Other 0.86 0.35
Total 181.47 73.44
The fields are generally large and of a good size and shape from modern agricultural machinery, with excellent access from the public road and internal tracks. In general terms, the land to the south of the farm road is gently sloping with a southerly aspect. The land to the north of the farm road is undulating and bounded to the north by the Kinness Burn.
Lot 2 - Farm Buildings
About 1.39 acres
Farm Buildings
The farm buildings, which lie to the east of the house site are served by extensive concrete aprons and benefit from three-phase electricity. The buildings comprise:
General purpose shed (37.00 m x 21.10 m). Steel portal frame construction, extending to 6 bays with a corrugated roof, concrete floor and concrete block walls. Partly grain walled. Access is from large sliding doors at each end of the shed.
General purpose shed (36.20 m x 24.70 m). Steel portal frame construction, extending to 6 bays, with a profile sheet metal roof, part profile sheet metal, part concrete block walls and concrete floor. Access is from sliding doors at each end of the shed and also from a side door.
Tractor shed (30.20 m x 13.40 m). Steel portal frame construction, extending to 5 bays, with a corrugated roof, concrete block walls and concrete floor. Includes integral workshop.
Office/Bothy
Constructed over two floors of concrete block under a flat, felt roof. The office is accessed by external stairs on the side of the building. Below the office is a bothy (4.00 m x 3.24 m).
General
Single Farm Payment
Easter Clatto has a combined allocation of 62.10 Standard Entitlements, valued at 339.06 euros, and 6.84 Set Aside Entitlements, valued at 342.19 euros under the Single Farm Payment Scheme.
The Entitlements are available by negotiation to the purchaser of the farm, if required.
The SEERAD code number for Easter Clatto is 431/0001.
Click here for a brochure of this property
A productive arable farm with full planning permission for a farm house on a superb site overlooking St Andrews Bay
Lot 1 - Offers over £800,000
Lot 2 - Offers invited
St Andrews 4 miles, Cupar 5 miles, Perth 27 miles, Edinburgh 49 miles
Easter Clatto is situated in the attractive and unspoilt countryside of Fife's East Neuk. The area has a reputation for a productive, high quality farmland, with a well developed agricultural infrastructure, including a number of grain, potato, fruit and agricultural machinery merchants.
There are excellent connections to all parts of the country with a mainline railway station at Leuchars (4 miles) and the national motorway network at Perth (27 miles). In addition, there are regular shuttle flights to London from Dundee airport (14 miles). The A92 trunk road is 9 miles distant, which provides good access to the major population centres in Fife and the central belt.
Blebocraigs has a village hall and a post office while Strathkinness (2 miles) has a primary school, village shop and a church. The popular and historic town of St Andrews (4 miles) provides a wide range of services and facilities, including supermarkets, high street shops, cinema, banks and an array of cafes and restaurants. The town is also home to the famous university and several golf courses including The Old Course, the venue for the 2010 Open Championship.
In terms of education, there is an excellent state secondary school in St Andrews, with private education at St Leonards in St Andrews and the High School of Dundee. For the sports enthusiast, the farm is ideally placed for the several golf courses and driving range in St Andrews. There are excellent beaches at St Andrews and Tentsmuir, along with a network or rural footpaths. For those keen on country sports, there are several trout fisheries within 1 hours drive and there is walked-up and driven game shooting available to let locally.
Farming System
The land at Easter Clatto lies between 295 feet and 460 feet above sea level, and has an average annual rainfall of 29 inches. Traditionally the farming system has focused upon the production of spring and winter cereals and oats with break crops of oil seed rape, potatoes and grass. However, the land is extremely versatile and is capable of growing a wider range of crops if required. The average yields are as follows:
Winter wheat 4 - 4.5 tonnes per acre
Oats 2.5 - 3 tonnes per acre
Oil Seed Rape 1.8 tonnes per acre
Lot 1 - House Site and Farmland
About 181.47 acres
House Site
A planning application (Ref:04/03278/EFULL) was submitted on 21 October 2004, requesting permission to build a single storey, 4 bedroom farmhouse on an elevated site to the west of the farm buildings. This application was provisionally approved by Fife Council subject to a Section 75 Legal Agreement, the conditions of which are as follows:
(i) An Agricultural Occupancy Restriction is placed on the new farmhouse.
(ii) The new farmhouse cannot be sold separately from the land.
The Section 75 Legal Agreement has now been signed and is available for inspection at the offices of the selling agent.
The site benefits from stunning views over St Andrews Bay and the house has been designed to take full advantage of these. The accommodation will comprise:
Hall, lounge, dining room, kitchen, utility room, WC, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, two bedrooms with en-suite facilities, a further bedroom and WC. Integral double garage.
A plan of the proposed accommodation is enclosed within the brochure.
Farmland
The land at Easter Clatto is principally graded Class 3 (1) by the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research. This class is defined as land capable of producing a wide range of crops. The land is principally of the Rowanhill/Giffnock/Winton series of which the component soils are brown forest soils with some gleys. The land in general has a good working depth and is relatively stone free.
The land on the farm can be analysed as follows:
Land Type Acres Hectares
Arable 179.15 72.50
Rough Grazings 1.46 0.59
Roads/Buildings/Other 0.86 0.35
Total 181.47 73.44
The fields are generally large and of a good size and shape from modern agricultural machinery, with excellent access from the public road and internal tracks. In general terms, the land to the south of the farm road is gently sloping with a southerly aspect. The land to the north of the farm road is undulating and bounded to the north by the Kinness Burn.
Lot 2 - Farm Buildings
About 1.39 acres
Farm Buildings
The farm buildings, which lie to the east of the house site are served by extensive concrete aprons and benefit from three-phase electricity. The buildings comprise:
General purpose shed (37.00 m x 21.10 m). Steel portal frame construction, extending to 6 bays with a corrugated roof, concrete floor and concrete block walls. Partly grain walled. Access is from large sliding doors at each end of the shed.
General purpose shed (36.20 m x 24.70 m). Steel portal frame construction, extending to 6 bays, with a profile sheet metal roof, part profile sheet metal, part concrete block walls and concrete floor. Access is from sliding doors at each end of the shed and also from a side door.
Tractor shed (30.20 m x 13.40 m). Steel portal frame construction, extending to 5 bays, with a corrugated roof, concrete block walls and concrete floor. Includes integral workshop.
Office/Bothy
Constructed over two floors of concrete block under a flat, felt roof. The office is accessed by external stairs on the side of the building. Below the office is a bothy (4.00 m x 3.24 m).
General
Single Farm Payment
Easter Clatto has a combined allocation of 62.10 Standard Entitlements, valued at 339.06 euros, and 6.84 Set Aside Entitlements, valued at 342.19 euros under the Single Farm Payment Scheme.
The Entitlements are available by negotiation to the purchaser of the farm, if required.
The SEERAD code number for Easter Clatto is 431/0001.
Click here for a brochure of this property
property reference: SPEH_EDN080263
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