Llanbister, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1

Vronganllwyd has been run as a mixed arable and livestock farm and forms the second farming base. The land has been continuously improved by the vendor through good husbandry with about 138 acres currently in arable cropping or temporary grass and consent to plough and crop about 36 acres of land currently in permanent pasture. The farm includes a four-bedroom farmhouse and good range of useful modern livestock buildings.

The farm forms part of a larger sale and is shown as Lot 2 on the sale plan.

Vronganllwyd Farmhouse

The farmhouse is set in an elevated position part way up the valley side, with far reaching views over the farm and hills beyond. The house is set centrally in the yard providing it with convenient access to stock held in the farm buildings. Inside there are two reception rooms, a kitchen/breakfast room, boot room, utility room and farm office. On the first floor there are four bedrooms and family bathroom. The house is well laid out and would benefit from some modernisation.
Access to the house is from the main drive into the farmyard, however, the house benefits from separate parking and a garden to the rear.

Buildings

There are three access points into the farmyard from the public highway, which provides good links to the land to the north, and two farm tracks from the yard provide access to the land to the south. The buildings have been used by the vendor for livestock housing and general farm storage and comprise:

1. Silage Clamp ? 305 sqm ? Concrete floor, earth bank wall to one side, part sleeper and part freestanding concrete panel walls to two other. Drainage system leading to effluent tank.
2. Cattle Shed ? 466 sqm ? Steel portal frame, concrete floor, block walls, space board cladding and a fibre cement roof. Feed passage along one elevation.
3. Covered Silage clamp and lean-to ? 605 sqm (including lean-to) ? Main span - Steel portal frame, concrete floor, mass poured concrete walls, space cladding and a fibre cement roof. Used as a covered silage clamp
Lean-to ? Steel frame, concrete floor, block walls, corrugated iron clad and a fibre cement roof. Shares a feed passage with building 2.
4. Dutch Barn and lean-to ? 201 sqm - Steel frame, concrete floor, corrugated iron cladding and roof. Divided internally to provide three bunkers
5. Lean-to ? 175 sqm ? Steel frame lean-to on building 4, concrete floor, block walls, corrugated iron cladding, fibre cement roof. Used as livestock housing.
6. Workshop ? 98 sqm ? Timber frame, part concrete part stone floor, corrugated iron roof and cladding.
7. Livestock Shed ? 895 sqm ? Steel portal frame, concrete floor, open on long elevations with feed barriers under cantilevers, space board cladding to gable ends.
8. Livestock Shed ? 722 sqm ? Steel portal frame, concrete floor, open one long elevation with feed barrier under cantilever, space board cladding to gable ends. Concrete yard to other long elevation under a cantilever.
9. Storage Shed ? 313 sqm ? Steel portal frame with lean-to. Main part concrete floor, mass poured concrete walls to three elevations and block wall to other, space board cladding above and a fibre cement roof. Lean-to with stone floor, block walls, corrugated iron cladding and fibre cement roof.
10. Manure Store ? 518 sqm ? Concrete floor, sleeper walled manure store.
11. Ring tower ? Ring tower used for dirty water storage.

The Land

The land at Vronganllwyd comprise principally of freely draining slightly acid loamy soils and seasonally wet acid loamy and clayey soils and is classified as Grade 3b and 4. The land has grown a range of cereal crops including winter wheat, winter and spring barley, triticale and fodder beet. Historically potatoes have also been grown on the farm.

About 138 acres is currently in arable cropping or temporary grass, about 119 acres in permanent pasture of which about 36 acres has consent to be ploughed and cropped. There is also about 15 acres of woodland.

The land is well served for access from the public highway and internal stone farm tracks.

The land ranges in altitude from 270 to 390 meters above sea level.

The right to graze up to 359 sheep units on Moelynaidd & Coxhead and Littlehill Commons common land and the right to take stone for road and farmyard maintenance.

Vronganllwyd Farm is situated about 1.5 miles south of Llanbister in the historic county of Radnorshire, now Powys, in a broad and fertile valley in an area well known for its livestock farming and productive soils. The wider area forms part of the historic Welsh Marches and benefits from good links into mid-Wales, east into England and north and south via the A483.

Llanbister is the closest village and contains a primary school, pub and church, with a wider range of services available in Llandrindod Wells and Newtown. Ludlow, Leominster and Shrewsbury are popular destinations for leisure, culture and shopping, all about an hour's drive away. The A483 and B4536, which are all easily accessible from the property, provide good road links.

Travel links by train are available from Llanbister Road and Llangunllo for local rail services, with mainline services operating from Shrewsbury and Birmingham New Street.