Land for sale in Sowerby Row, Sowerby Row, Carlisle CA4

Property Reference number : 803982

This is a wonderful opportunity to create your perfect equestrian home with great road access and close to the Lake District which is within touching distance. Less than £100K will see it finished and turned into a beautiful home (subject to final specification).

Description:

This is a unique development opportunity to create your own little piece of heaven as it is well located between Penrith and Carlisle, close to the peaceful settlement of Sowerby Row, and has the space to grow both your living space and the animal accommodation.

The property is approximately 3.4 miles from the village of Sebergham, 11.9 miles from the city of Carlisle. Carlisle being the main shopping location and administrative centre for Cumbria and the Scottish Borders. Penrith lies just 13 miles from the property and provides a range of local amenities including shops, restaurants, leisure and medical services. The property is located approximately 9 miles from the M6 motorway, providing excellent transport links to the surrounding area and wider motorway network.

The barn benefits from attractive countryside views of the Northern Lake District fells and the North Pennines. It sits set back off the road, accessed via a gated farm track (which requires improvement) and shielded by trees for added privacy and has no other immediate neighbours.

There’s enough land, split into fields, to accommodate several equines whilst also leaving residential use land to enable extensions to make this a great family home with stunning views to the front and rear.

Project:

The opportunity is to purchase a traditional, stone field barn with 9.32 acres of agricultural land along with a timber framed American style livestock / storage barn located in a secluded, peaceful setting.

The stone barn has full planning permission for extension, alteration and change of use from an agricultural building to form a three bedroomed dwelling under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Eden District Council reference 20/0160) which has now been implemented and the conversion works have been commenced. We’ve got the structural report on the condition of the barn before the redevelopment commenced and so far, all the external walls that needed to be rebuilt have been recreated, with block interior and the original stone so that the rural appearance has been recreated. All the new work has been passed by Building Control under an ongoing Building Notice application. The barn is now nearly ready for the roof to go back on, we’ve got the structural calculations for the roof, and we’ve even got the original Westmoreland Slates to go back on!

The property is accessed via a farm track through the field from the public highway, consent has been given for a drive to be built to access the barn (Eden District Council reference number 20/0160) which has been created although it’d benefit from being tidied up once the conversion is completed.

The barn is situated in the middle of the landholding within an area zoned as residential use which will enable future owners to extend the property, subject to any necessary consents. A plan is available that shows a potential layout showing how the barn could become a 4 bed property without impacting on the equestrian land area.

Also attached is a potential floor plan that shows it’s got potential to be a 2 bed home. So, this is a great chance to create your perfect home close to the North Lakes!

There’s also the potential to reclaim the VAT on materials via the hmrc diy Housebuilding Scheme and we can provide the requisite documentation that we’ve got to assist.

Services:

The drainage is to be via a private treatment plant that can discharge either into the natural pond on site which has variable level, it can connect into the piped watercourse that is an outflow for the pond or you can create a drainage field on the site. We’ve also got an 800 gallon septic tank on site with a field drain outflow. No warranty is given as to its suitability for use at the conversion.

There is mains water piped up to the wall of the barn ready for connection.

There’s the potential to connect to mains electricity which is located in the neighbouring farmers field and previously they agreed to £10k for the rights to lay the cable across their land. So far, we’ve opted for a renewable option with the installation of an off grid solar system comprising a 6.15kW Solar pv system consisting of 15 x 410w sharp Solar panels field mounted, Fox ess KH1 10.0kW Single Phase Hybrid Inverter with 4 x 2.5kWh mira Lithium-Ion Batteries. This system can be expanded as required or connect to the grid if preferred.

The land

The land extends to just over 9.3 acres which is split into 4 different areas none of which have had chemicals used on it since we’ve owned it. So, it’s going a long way towards being organic.

The front field which is used for grazing and provided 23 number 6 foot hay bales off a single cut.

Located in this fields top corner is a small paddock with field shelter that we use for goats but is ideal for ponies or lots of other animals.

Beyond the front field is the barn, pond and proposed garden areas.

Finally, and to the rear is the back field which is again laid out for grazing with the added benefit of 12ft gates at either end of the stock proof fence boundary to the barn.

Within the back field is a fenced area for the solar panels and a 6 stall American barn which has 2 number 12x10 stables, 2 number 12x12 stables and 2 number 12x16 stables timber construction on a concrete base under a metal roof. The stables have spotlights as well as an external light, electric socket, water supply and solar powered security cameras with motion sensors.

Currently there’s an application submitted for the creation of a dressage sized ménage and yard area as well change of land use from agricultural to equestrian. All the boundaries are secured by stock proof fencing and there are no paths or Rights of Way crossing the site.

Also, we’ve been advised by an independent planning consultant, it has become an accepted principle, as a consequence of relevant and comparable appeal decisions, that if dwellings can be created without requiring planning permission under Class Q, this provides a valid fallback position for a replacement new build scheme. Where it can then be demonstrated that a replacement dwelling scheme in those circumstances would provide some kind of enhancement in comparison with the Class Q scheme then it is usually now accepted that such a proposal is capable of being supported.

Council Tax: A

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Property Reference number : 803982