Land for sale: 5 fantastic opportunities

published 31 October 2016

Sutherland, offers over £850,000 Gualin Estate, Durness 6,239 acres, salmon and sea-trout fishing, stalking hill ground, five-bedroom lodge, three-bedroom house, two/three-bedroom flat A one-third share of a spectacular Highland estate, including 7½ miles of double-bank fishing on the River Dionard and access to one of Scotland’s most prolific sea-trout lochs, plus a keeper’s house, sporting lodge and other estate buildings, including a fish room, deer larder, garaging, kennels and gillie’s flat. Savills (0131–291 0073)

Perthshire, offers over £8.625 million for the whole (or in three lots from £425,000 each)

Moness Forest estate 3,262 acres, including 2,199 acres of mid-rotation Sitka-spruce commercial forestry Substantial Highland estate in a well-established timber-production region, which also features exceptional hill ground with deer stalking and grouse and planning consent for a wind-farm development of up to 21MW Bidwells (01738 630 666) and John Clegg & Co (0131–229 8800)

Dorset, in excess of £3 million

Manor Farm, Cattistock A plot of 319 acres of lime-rich pasture and woodland located in an AONB, with two agricultural buildings and planning consent for a four-bedroom farmhouse and ‘potential for a challenging shoot, which is currently not exercised’ Strutt & Parker (01722 344 010)

North Yorkshire, £5.5 million

Broomfield Farm, Helperby Productive arable farmland in the Vale of York, with 690 acres, a pair of semi-detached cottages and a range of traditional buildings Carter Jonas (01423 582 833)

Somerset, £3.75 million

Stoke Farm, Charlton Musgrove, near Bruton The views from Stoke Farm take in the 18th-century folly King Alfred’s Tower, said to have straddled the boundaries of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. There are 219 ring-fenced acres, modern farm buildings, two farm cottages and planning permission for a five-bedroom farmhouse Savills (01722 426 800)

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Annunciata grew up in the wilds of Lancashire and now lives in Hampshire with a husband, two daughters and an awful pug called Parsley. She’s been floating round the Country Life office for more than a decade, her work winning the Property Magazine of the Year Award in 2022 (Property Press Awards). Before that, she had a two-year stint writing ‘all kinds of fiction’ for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, worked in internal comms for Country Life’s publisher (which has had many names in recent years but was then called IPC Media), and spent another year researching for a historical biographer, whose then primary focus was Graham Greene and John Henry Newman and whose filing system was a collection of wardrobes and chests of drawers filled with torn scraps of paper. During this time, she regularly gave tours of 17th-century Milton Manor, Oxfordshire, which may or may not have been designed by Inigo Jones, and co-founded a literary, art and music festival, at which Johnny Flynn headlined. When not writing and editing for Country Life, Annunciata is also a director of TIN MAN ART, a contemporary art gallery founded in 2021 by her husband, James Elwes.

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