UKLAND&FARMS

For Sale - £10,500,000 - 906 acres, Lot 1: Wark Estate, Wark, Cornhill-On-Tweed, Northumberland, TD12, TD12 4RE

Savills (UK) Ltd
Wemyss House, 8 Wemyss Place, Edinburgh, Central Scotland EH3 6DH

Tel:0131 247 3700
E-mail: edinburgh_rural@savills.com

• WARK HOUSE: Two reception rooms, six ensuite double bedrooms
• TWO ESTATE COTTAGES: Steward’s Cottage and Shepherd’s Cottage
• FARM STEADING: Range of modern and traditional buildings | Commercial workshop units
• LAND: 731.7 acres arable and temporary grass (mainly irrigable) | 71.7 acres permanent grass and rough grazing and 77.8 acres woodland
• SPORTING RIGHTS: Established low ground shoot with potential to expand | Roe stalking
• In all about 906 acres
• Offered for sale as Lot 1 of Wark Estate

EXCEPTIONAL AGRICULTURAL, RESIDENTIAL AND SPORTING ESTATE BEAUTIFULLY LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE TWEED VALLEY.

Description

The sale of Wark Estate provides a rare opportunity to acquire an exceptional agricultural and residential Estate in the Tweed Valley.

The Estate was purchased by the late Haddon Lovett in 1960 and includes, as its focal point, Wark House, a charming easily managed compact country house situated on the north east edge of the hamlet. The house was extensively refurbished in 2022.

Additionally, there are two further dwellings - Steward’s Cottage and Shepherd’s Cottage.

The steading is centrally positioned within the Estate and includes two large modern portal framed buildings, various traditional buildings and a further range of traditional buildings which were converted in 2002 to form three double workshop units.

The Estate is relatively compact and well shaped and lies between the 15 metre and 60 metre contours. Average annual rainfall is approximately 715mm. Most of the land is classified as grade 2 with the remainder grade 3. The land adjacent to the Tweed and either side of the B6350 is comparatively flat with rich, deep, virtually stone free, permeable alluvial sandy silt loams (Alun Series). On the slightly more elevated land to the south soils mainly comprise fertile sandy clay loams with a variable clay fraction (principally Wick and Flint Series). Throughout the Estate soils are for the most part easily worked and relatively free draining.

The arable land is characterised by large, well shaped fields which are eminently suited to modern farming practices. Field drainage is good, soil indices are excellent and the land is clean with no significant weed ingress. Fences are serviceable to the permanent grass fields and throughout the Estate there are numerous well maintained hedges, mainly populated with quicks, which have been rejuvenated under Stewardship. Virtually all fields are accessible either directly off the public road or via internal hard tracks.

The arable land has been farmed on a contract farming basis with McGregor Farms since 2003 with the principal crops being winter wheat, winter oilseed rape, vining peas and potatoes. There is a current abstraction licence and most of the farm is irrigable with fixed pipework in strategic locations. The arable land is capable of consistently producing above average yields and has been farmed to a first class standard. The permanent grass is licensed for seasonal grazing.

PLEASE CONTACT SAVILLS TO REGISTER INTEREST AND RECEIVE THE FULL PARTICULARS OF SALE.


Acreage: 906 Acres