Situation

The Limes is situated south of the village Gedney Hill on the fringe of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, in a productive farming area. Gedney Hill has a small convenience shop and a primary school with further amenities found in Spalding or Peterborough. Surroundings are predominantly arable fields divided by drains with lines of trees running along field boundaries.

The farm has good transport links with the A47 being 6 miles to the south of the property that leads to the A1 in the west and Kings Lynn in the east. There are regular trains running from Peterborough to London with the fastest trains taking approximately 50 minutes.

Description

The Limes is a productive arable farm with farmhouse, range of farm buildings and approximately 255.9 acres of Grade 1 and 2 arable land . The farm has been run by the outgoing tenants as arable farm previously root crops have been grown across some of the soils.

The farmstead sits in the center of the northern block of land with access taken from the B1166, the southern block of land is accessed from French Drove.

The Limes Farmhouse

The Limes farmhouse sits off the farm entrance with a separate access and parking area, the property is detached, red brick with tile roof and surrounded by well-tended gardens and a vegetable patch. Ground floor accommodation includes porch, WC, utility, kitchen with range of fitted units and living area with open fire, dining room and sitting room. Both the dining and sitting rooms have open fires and sash windows, which make for light living spaces and views across the garden. First floor accommodation includes four bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property has oil fired central heating and would generally benefit from some updating and improvement, but makes for a well-proportioned family home with a pleasant elevated outlook and garden, opening to the farmland.
Traditional buildings

To the immediate rear of the farmhouse are a row of traditional buildings, these could suit conversion to alternative uses subject to planning permission being granted. They are constructed from stone, a timber frame with a slate roof and internally stone tile floor. The old servants quarter that is set across two floors and measures 5.70 x 4.65 with the adjoining building measuring 3.10 x 4.65.

Farm buildings
North of the farmhouse lies the range of farm buildings, a number of these buildings where previously used for housing livestock when the tenant operated a mixed farm.

Grain Store (10.8m x 22.8m) thrust grain walling, on floor drying, steel frame, fibre cement roof and side sheets, sliding doors.

Lean to adjoining grain store (11.8 x 22.8) concrete floor, steel frame, fibre cement roof, part open with half benefitting from steel profile side sheets and concrete grain waling, used as a temporary grain storage during harvest.

Workshop (9.1 x 9.1) concrete block work walling, concrete render, steel frame

General purpose open fronted building (27.1 x 11.6) steel frame, fibre cement roof and three walls benefits from timber walling leading to Yorkshire boarding.

Old stables, timber frame, concrete floor, cement fibre roofing, corrugated steel wall cladding.

Stables, four stables of differing sizes constructed from red brick with a corrugated steel roof.

Old cart and machinery store, timber frame with a mixture of cement fibre and corrugated steel roofing

Land

The farmland lies in two separate blocks land to the north of the Old South Eau Drain and land to the south of the drain. The total arable area extends to 255.9 acres (103.56 hecatres). All the land can be accessed from public roads with the northern block of land accessed from the B1166 while the southern blocks are accessed from French Drove. The fields are of a good size and regular shape for modern farming practices.
The land is classified as grade 1 and 2 under the MAFF Provisional Agricultural Land Classification with the grade 1 land being located on the northern parcel of land closest to Gedney Hill. The soils are from the Wallasea 2 and Wisbech soil series, the Wisbech soil series are described as deep stoneless calcareous coarse silty soils. The Wallasea 2 soils are described as deep stoneless clayey soils, calcareous in places. Both soil types are suitable for winter cereals and in places sugar beet, potatoes and field vegetables.

The land is bounded by dykes and hedgerows. There is a small dilapidated shed constructed from a timber frame, corrugated profile roofing and timber cladding.

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