Farm rural, land for sale West Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 0PS

The land is a charming, gently undulating, ring fenced block totalling approximately 33.34 acres. The land is down to grass divided into manageable sized enclosures with mature hedgerows. There is also a small area of pretty broadleaf woodland (0.37 acres). Parts of the western boundary run along the Fontmell Brook, a tributary of the River Stour. The land has been used by the vendors to graze sheep and cut hay. The soil is classified as Wickham 2 series being fine loam/silt over clayey soils and is Grade 3 and 4. Since purchasing the land in 2015, the current owners have stock fenced the fields and improved the ditching and hedging. Elmwood and Nine Acre were re-seeded in 2020. The land is accessed via a private drive indicated by the blue hatched area on the sales plan. Planning permission was granted in January 2020 for the erection of an agricultural building for livestock and storage of fodder and straw and to create a section of track to meet the existing drove (2/2019/1544/FUL). The 7-bay building will be 32m x 13.71m, with concrete panel and timber clad sides under a fibre cement roof with a 5 ft overhang. A material start was made in 2022, with the foundations of the barn having been set out and laid, with concrete poured where the footings are.