Everton Farm, Insch, Aberdeenshire

Everton FarmInsch, Aberdeenshire AB52 6PP

A desirable stock farm with modernised farmhouse and excellent cattle accommodation in a prime livestock area

Insch 2.5 miles, Inverurie 12 miles Aberdeen 28 miles

Lot 1Farmhouse: Sitting room | Dining room Kitchen | Study | 3 Bedrooms | BathroomEPC rating F

Traditional farm buildings | Machinery store GP shed | Boarding kennels | Cattle pens Lambing shed

Arable field about 11 acres

Lot 2Modern farm buildings: Cattle courts | Silage pit | Draff store | Hay shed

About 100 acres arable | About 15 acres pasture

About 130 acres (52.7ha) in total

For sale a whole or in 2 lots

The propertyEverton comprises an exceptionally well equipped stock and arable farm. Many of the fields are adjacent to public roads. The fields are well fenced for both cattle and sheep and most fields have their own watering points or troughs.

It is a particularly well equipped stock farm which has capacity to house approximately 400

cattle and a number of sheep have also been run. The farm is a short distance off the public road along a tarred drive.

All the land benefits from having less favoured area status. The area is well supplied with machinery dealers, agricultural contractors, farm suppliers, etc.

Lot 1: Everton Farmhouse – About 12.8 acresSituated conveniently close to the farm steading Everton Farmhouse is constructed of stone with a harled exterior under a slate roof. The house has a fine easterly outlook down the valley. It was modernised in 1988 to provide the following accommodation on two floors:

A partially glazed front door to the entrance vestibule with stairs to first floor, a partially glazed door to rear hall and doors to the living room, dining room, study, utility room and store.

Sitting Room5.04 x 4.16

16'6" x 13'8"

Entrance Hall2.83 x 2.289'3" x 7'6"

Dining Room4.26 x 3.18

14'0" x 10'5"(max)

Study3.37 x 1.77

11'1" x 5'10"

Kitchen4.45 x 3.99

14'7" x 13'1"(min)

Rear Porch2.60 x 1.478'6" x 4'10"

Utility Room3.25 x 1.7210'8" x 5'8"

WC1.70 x 0.925'7" x 3'0"

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Store

Bedroom 15.09 x 4.24

16'8" x 13'11"

Bathroom4.18 x 1.8813'9" x 6'2"

Bedroom 25.10 x 3.20

16'9" x 10'6"(max)

Landing

Bedroom 3 4.30 x 4.14

14'1" x 13'7"

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Floorplans

Ground Floor

First Floor

In the living room there are French doors to the garden and a Hunter multi fuel stove. The kitchen, with a solid fuel Raeburn and walk-in pantry, overlooks the drive and main yard. Three bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor complete the accommodation.

OutsideThere is an attractive garden with a vegetable patch and a stone and slate roof storage shed.

Traditional Farm BuildingsPart of the original farm steading remains and provides useful storage space for dog kennels/lambing pens, fuel and vehicles. The numbers in brackets refer to the block plan of the buildings.

• Lambing shed (15) 32m x 6.5m harled stone walls, corrugated roof with steel roof trusses and concrete floor. This building was used as boarding kennels until 2011, with 21 pens.

• Turnip shed/bull pens (13) 17m x 5m stone under slate roof with concrete floor, 3 bull pens of tubular steel construction.

• Workshop (19) 16m x 5.2m.

• Fuel store/fencing shed (17) 10m x 4.7m harled stone under corrugated roof. Chemical store. Workshop on 1st floor.

• Store with loft area (17) 11m x 4.7m stone walls.

• Garage (18) 5.36m x 2.74m.

• Five bull pens (16) 20m x 5.3m tubular steel lean-to with concrete block walls, galvanised corrugated steel roof and concrete floor. Concrete block feed troughs. Tubular steel gates, automatic water bowls.

• Lambing shed (11) 23m x 10.4m harled concrete block and stone walls, corrugated roof and concrete floor.

• Cattle court 2 (12) 21m x 9.2m (Stuart of Old Rayne construction) 6 bay timber frame with part concrete block walls and part Yorkshire boarding, corrugated roof and concrete floor, steel feed barriers, access to traditional court/turnip store.

• Lean-to 1 (12) 21m x 6m (Stuart of Old Rayne construction) timber frame with concrete block dwarf walls, corrugated iron side cladding and corrugated roof with concrete floor.

• General purpose shed (14) 24m x 9m – 4 bay steel portal frame with concrete block/stone walls with corrugated tin side cladding and corrugated roof. Concrete floor.

• Covered cattle handing system (16) with 3 bull pens, holding pens, crush, cattle crate and loading ramp.

FieldIncluded in Lot 1 is part of Field 14 to the south east of the farmhouse. Presently in grass with stockproof fencing. Classified 3(2) by the Hutton Institute.

Lot 2: A Useful Block of Modern Farm Buildings & Land – About 117 acres

Approached off a tarred access road and situated to the west of the original steading are the modern farm buildings which have been carefully laid out to create an efficient working environment and designed to ease the flow of traffic and the handling of stock with good concrete aprons.

From the south west corner

• Grain storage bins: 2 x 250 tonnes, 1 x 200 tonnes Bryce Baker galvanised steel storage bins.

• Silage pit (2) 36m x 11.4m capacity for 2,000 tonnes covered steel with reinforced concrete sleeper walls and concrete floor.

• Draff pit (1) 14m x 5m capacity for 500 tonnes. Steel stanchions with reinforced concrete sleeper walls and concrete floor.

• Cattle court 3 (4/5) 29m x 13.2m with lean-to (3) 26m x 7m. 5 bay steel frame with concrete block walls. Galvaprime roof sheets and ventilated gable cladding. Concrete drive through feed pass with concrete troughs and some locking steel barriers.

• Cattle court 4 (6) 30m x 6m timber pole with concrete block gable wall, roof sheets, concrete troughs (perimeter feeding).

• Straw store (7) 23m x 18m with 2 lean-tos 23m x 9m. Steel frame with galvanised steel side cladding, box profile and corrugated roof and hardcore floor.

• Cattle court 5 (8) 23m x 8m steel frame with galvanised steel side cladding, box profile roof and concrete floor. Central feed pass between courts 5 & 6.

• Cattle court 6 (9) 23m x 9m steel frame with galvanised steel side cladding, box profile roof and concrete floor.

• Machinery shed (22) 31m x 8m lean-to steel frame general purpose shed. Hardcore floor.

• Hard standing for bale storage.

The LandThe land is classified by the Hutton Institute as Class 3(2) & 4(2). From 160 metres to 270 metres above sea level. The land is 99.81 acres arable, 15.31 acres pasture, 2.27 acres buildings etc., generally with an easterly aspect. All the fields have water troughs fed from the farm supply.

LocationEverton Farm is located 28 miles north west of Aberdeen, the “Granite City” and oil capital of Europe. Situated in rural Aberdeenshire to the north of Castle Forbes and east of the famous landmark of Bennachie. Everton is readily accessible to Aberdeen’s International Airport at Dyce (22 miles). It has a comprehensive range of international and domestic flights daily. A regular inter-city rail service operates from Aberdeen and there is a connecting railway station at Insch, 2½ miles away.

Alford and Inverurie are the two principal towns nearby; both are agricultural centres and commuting towns for Aberdeen with Thainstone Market, situated at Inverurie. Both centres provide a comprehensive range of shops, hotels, garages, post offices, secondary and primary schooling. Primary schooling is also available at Auchleven.

The range of amenities available in the area are considerable with a number of golf courses, fishing opportunities on the nearby River Don and skiing available at Aviemore, Glenshee and the Lecht and also at the dry ski slope in Alford.

GeneralEntry: By arrangement.Government Bodies: Aberdeenshire Council, Gordon House, Blackhall Road, Inverurie, AB51 3WB. Tel: 01467 6200981.Forestry Authority: Ordiquhill, Portsoy Road, Huntly, AB54 4SJ. Tel: 01466 794542.Rural Payments & Inspectorate Division: Thainstone Court, Inverurie, AB51 5YA. Tel: 01467 626222.Solicitors: Burnett & Reid, 15 Golden Square, Aberdeen AB10 1WF.Outgoings: Everton Farm has been assessed as band F for Council Tax purposes excluding water rates.Household Contents: The fitted carpets are included in the sale.Services: Everton Farmhouse: Private drainage and private water, mains electricity, double glazing and oil central heating.Farm buildings: 3 phase mains electricity.Minerals: In so far as they are owned they are included in the sale.

Sportings: The sporting rights are included in the sale. Agricultural Code: 017/0024Rights of way, wayleaves and easements: The farm is sold subject to all existing rights of support, way, public rights of way, water, light and drainage, wayleaves and all or any other like rights whether or not mentioned in these particulars. Wayleave Payments: There are a number of electricity lines on the farm which produce an income of circa £336.Ingoing Valuations: The purchaser shall in addition to the purchase price, be obliged to take over and pay for at a valuation to be agreed between two valuers, one acting for each party, or an arbiter appointed by the valuers, or failing agreement as to the appointment by the President, for the time being, of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Scottish Branch) the following:1. All cultivations valued on a labour and

machinery basis.

2. All growing crops on a seeds, labour, lime, fertiliser, sprays and machinery basis with an increment representing the enhanced value of the establishment and age of such crops.

3. All hay, straw, fodder, silage and farmyard manure and other produce at market value.

4. All oils, fuel, fertilisers, sprays, chemicals, seeds and sundry stores at cost.

If the amount of the valuation has not been agreed by the date fixed for completion, then the purchaser shall pay to the seller such a sum, as Strutt & Parker shall certify, on account of the valuation pending agreement.Basic Payment Scheme: The seller has registered for the Basic Payment Scheme and they will transfer their entitlements with the farm apportioned to each lot. The seller will retain the 2015 paymentOffers: Offers should be submitted in Scottish Legal form to Messrs. Strutt & Parker, St. Nicholas House, 68 Station Road, Banchory, Kincardineshire, AB31 5YJ. A closing date for offers will probably be fixed and prospective purchasers are advised to register their interest with the selling agents following inspection.Special Conditions of Sale1. The purchaser(s) shall within five days of

conclusion of missives make payment as a guarantee for due performance of a sum equal to ten per cent of the purchase price on which sum no interest will be allowed. Timeous payment of said sum shall be a material condition of the contract. In the event that such payment is not made timeously the seller(s) reserves the right to resile without further notice. The balance of the purchase price will be paid by Bankers Draft at the date of entry and interest at five per cent above the Royal Bank of Scotland base rate current from time to time will be

charged thereon from the term of entry until payment. Consignation shall not avoid payment of the foregoing rate of interest. In the event of the purchaser(s) failing to make payment of the balance of the said price at the date of entry, payment of the balance of the purchase price on the due date being of the essence of the contract,

the seller(s) shall be entitled to resile from the contract. The seller(s), in that event reserves the right to resell or deal otherwise with the subjectsof sale, as he thinks fit. Furthermore he shall be entitled to retain in his hands the initial payment of ten per cent herein before referred to which shall be set off to account of any loss occasioned to him by the purchaser’s failure and in the event of the loss being less than the amount of the said deposit the seller(s) shall account to the purchaser(s) for any balance thereof remaining in his hand.

2. The Property will be sold subject to all rights of way, rights of access, wayleave, servitude, water rights, drainage and sewage rights, restrictions and burdens of whatever kind at present existing and whether contained in the Title Deeds or otherwise and whether formally constituted or not affecting the subject of sale.

3. The seller(s) shall be responsible for any rates, taxes and other burdens for the possession and for collection of income prior to the said date of entry. Where necessary, all rates, taxes and other burdens and income will be apportioned between the seller(s) and the purchaser(s) as at the said date of entry.

4. The minerals will be included in the sale of the property only in so far as the seller(s) has rights thereto.

5. Lot 1 will own the access road, subject to a right of access in favour of Lot 2.

DirectionsFrom Aberdeen head north on the A96, by-pass Inverurie and bear left after 6½ miles onto the B9002 towards Insch, bear left after 3 miles towards Auchleven. In Auchleven turn left, continue up the hill towards Alford and the entrance to Everton is on the right as one ascends the hill.

Viewing: Strictly by appointment through Strutt & Parker LLP.

Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. Plotted Scale - 1:175000

Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey Mapping with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown Copyright (ES100018525). NOT TO SCALE

Field No. Arable PP RG/Bldgs

Lot 1 14pt 4.46

15 0.22

Bldgs 0.5

Ha 4.46 0.22 0.5

Acres 11.02 0.54 1.24

Lot 2 5 0.27

6 0.05

7 14.97

8 6.23

9 4.05

10 0.09

11 0.51

12 11.21

13 2.15

14pt 8.00

Ha 40.41 6.2 0.92

Acres 99.81 15.31 2.27

Silos

Everton

12

22

34

56

7

8

914

13

16

12

1115

19

18 1716

10

Lot 1

Lot 2

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