Wells Road, Priddy, BA5

An attractive double fronted period farmhouse with a useful range of farm buildings together with around 52 acres of productive, arable capable and versatile land and set in a wonderful location in the Mendip Hills. Includes a paddock of 9 acres and about 1 acre of woodland. Further adjoining land and buildings available and available with less land.

Currently part of an arable farm comprising just over 280 acres. A well-appointed house and an attached outbuilding with potential for conversion having 4 bedrooms, 3 reception rooms, a fitted kitchen with a range cooker and other ancillary rooms. There are pretty gardens to the front and side and with an area of woodland of about 1 acre. The buildings are a workshop, 2 covered loose yards and a general-purpose storage barn all set around a concrete yard.

Priddy, an historic village is within easy striking distance of Bristol and Bath. Wells, just 4 miles, is a vibrant city and provides excellent amenities and education facilities. 

In the past the farm was a mixed dairy, arable and livestock farm. Lower Pitts Farm is extremely well farmed, and it is rare to find such a productive arable farm of this quality and condition, whilst also combining significant wildlife conservation and amenity attributes, in this region.

An attractive double fronted period farmhouse provides light and spacious accommodation with pretty gardens to the front and side. A stone entrance porch leads into the entrance hall with stairs to the first floor and doors to the reception rooms. The living room has windows to the front, double doors to the side, picture rail, tall built-in cupboard and fireplace with wood burner inset. The drawing room has windows to the front with built-in cupboards and fireplace. The dining room has a window to the side, period picture rail, oak fireplace surround with period range cooker inset. The kitchen is fitted with a range of cream wall and floor cabinets with an electric range cooker and built in fridge/freezer and a tiled floor. There is a utility room with a flagstone floor, plumbing for a washing machine and tumble drier, a Worcester boiler and a separate cloakroom. A pantry and storeroom complete the downstairs accommodation. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms, a single bedroom and a family bathroom with steps down to a further storage or hobby room. There are period fireplaces in some bedrooms with good ceiling heights and a light and bright feel.

There is an attached stone outbuilding that provides storage which could be incorporated into the farmhouse if required or potentially converted to an independent office or studio.

These have good access from the network of farm tracks and comprise of a group of three livestock and fodder/straw storage buildings being two covered loose yards and a general-purpose storage barn all set around a concrete yard. A further workshop/machinery store is set adjoining the house.

Land. All the land is within a ring fence with the majority being level and the remainder being sloping or undulating. The land is currently in an SFI scheme with the grassland being low input, the arable being legume fallow with grass buffer strips. woodland or copse. The fields are virtually all regular shapes with straight boundaries and are all a good size ranging from 9 to 18 acres.

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