Lot 1 - Cowstead Farmhouse £500,000
The Farmhouse
Cowstead Farmhouse is a detached period property built circa 1883 and is approached off the Queenborough Road via an entrance leading to the farmhouse, stables and farm buildings. The front door opens into an entrance hall off which are the living room, family room, dining room, boot room, utility and w.c. Off the dining room is the kitchen and a rear entrance lobby used as the principal access on a day to day basis. The staircase to the first floor leads to four double bedrooms and family bathroom. Gross internal area 2,408 ft² (224 m²) The farmhouse stands within a curtilage of about 0.37 Hectares (0.91 acres)
Lot 2 - The Stables and Farm Buildings £1,800,000
The Stables and Farm Buildings, with consent under either full planning permission or prior notification for the for change of use of agricultural
buildings to provide 4 No. dwelling houses; conversion of existing agricultural buildings to provide car barns, demolition of an existing agricultural
building, change of use of the land to residential garden and associated parking and landscaping works; and the demolition of an existing agricultural
building and conversion of 2 No. Existing barns to provide 3 No. residential dwellings including change of use of land to residential garden land and
associated parking and landscape works.
The Stable
On the opposite side of the access into Cowstead Farm are the converted stables. These comprise an open planned living room/kitchen, family bathroom,
two bedrooms and dressing room/study off the primary bedroom.
The gross internal floor area is 1,156 ft² (107 m²).
Farm Buildings
Extensive range of steel and concrete portal-framed and traditional farm buildings situated within a large farm steading extending in all to about
0.954 hectares (2.375 acres). The layout of the buildings is identified on the block plan in these particulars and are summarised as:
1. Steel framed open fronted Dutch barn with metal sheets covering roof sides and rear elevations.
2. Concrete framed grain store with concrete floor, block walls and asbestos sheet side cladding and roof.
3. Open fronted lean-to with asbestos sheet roof and sides.
4. Single storey brick built dairy building with adjacent open fronted storage under a slate roof. Part used for garaging of vehicles.
5. Courtyard of brick-built stables with timber cladding to front and asbestos sheet roof.
6. Concrete framed barn with asbestos sheet cladding to front and roof.
7. Timber framed and clad Period barn with asbestos sheet roof.
8. Single storey brick-built hay store with asbestos sheet roof.
The Farm Building have the benefit of the following planning consents:
23/504457/PNQCLA
- Prior notification for the change of use of agricultural buildings to 4no. dwelling houses and associated operation development. For its prior approval to: - Transport and Highways impacts of the
development. - Noise impacts of the development. - Contamination risks on the site. - Flooding risks on the site. - Whether the location or siting of the building makes it otherwise impractical or undesirable for the use of the building to change from agricultural use to C3 (dwellinghouses) - Design and external appearance impacts on the building. - Provision of adequate natural light in all habitable rooms of the dwellinghouses.
Prior Approval granted 15 December 2023.
23/502812/FULL - Conversion of existing agricultural buildings to provide car barns, demolition of an existing agricultural building, change of use of the land to residential garden and associated parking and
landscaping works. Granted consent on the 15 October 2024.
24/501284/FULL - Demolition of existing agricultural building (Block I) and conversion of 2no. existing barns (Blocks B and C) to provide 3no. residential dwellings, including change of use of the land to residential
garden land, and associated parking and landscaping works. Application permitted 28 October 2024.
Lot 2 is tinted red on the plan.
General Remarks and Information
General Remarks and Information
Method of Sale
The property is offered for sale by private treaty as a whole or in
two lots. The right is reserved to take the Property to auction or
tender at a later date.
EPC’s
Cowstead Farmhouse F
The Stables D
Hectares (& Acres)
The areas provided are for guidance only and are given without
responsibility. Any intended purchaser(s) should not rely upon
them as statements or representations of fact but must satisfy
themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the areas.
Fencing & Boundaries
The purchaser(s) must satisfy themselves on the location of the
boundaries from the Land Registry plans and the Vendor’s deed
plans (where available). The Buyer shall erect and thereafter
maintain a boundary fence on the permitter of the property to a
minimum specification to be agreed.
Tenure
Freehold with vacant possession.
Viewing
Strictly by appointment with George Webb Finn.
Mineral, Sporting and Timber Rights
All mineral, sporting and timber rights are included in the sale in
so far as they are owned by the Vendor.
Town & Country Planning
The property is sold subject to any development plan, tree
preservation order, town planning schedule, resolution or notice
in force and the purchaser(s) will be deemed to have full
knowledge and to satisfy himself with the provisions of any such
matter affecting the property.
Rights & Easements
The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all rights,
including rights of way, whether public or private, light, support,
drainage and electricity supply and other rights and obligations,
easements, quasi easements and restrictive covenants and all
existing and proposed wayleaves, masts, pylons, stays, cables,
drains, water, gas and other pipes.
Plans and Lotting
The plans and associated acreages have been prepared for
illustrative purposes and their accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
The Vendor reserves the right to alter the lotting or to not sell any
of the lots.
Access and Services
A right of way of a minimum width of 6m is to be reserved for all
purposes with or without vehicles over the roadway between
points “A” and “B” and “A and C” shown on the plan. The Seller
shall reserve rights to lay and connect into services under or in the
right of way between points “A” and “B” and “B and C” shown on
the plan. The Buyer shall erect and thereafter maintain gates a
points A, B and C on the plan.
VAT
The Vendor has not made a voluntary election of the land for VAT
Photographs
The Photographs included within these particulars were taken March
2025.
Local Authority
Swale Borough Council – 01795 417850
