Lodge Lane, Saughall, Chester, Cheshire

The property
Shotwick Lodge Complex is a detached, versatile former farmhouse, that while in need of cosmetic modernisation, offers the opportunity to maximise the 4,420 sq ft of flexible living space and extensive outbuildings set in approximately 6.73 acres.

The accommodation originally one dwelling, later divided into two providing a three and four bed semi detached properties. The four bed comprises an entrance hall with useful storage, a dining room with a front aspect bay window and feature open fireplace and an inter-connecting dual aspect sitting room. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a kitchen/breakfast room with a fireplace, base units, a breakfast bar and space for modern integrated appliances and a table, together with an attached utility room. Off the kitchen is a boot room, with access to the garden via two aspects, that links to a further building with two stores, a garage and a gardener’s WC. Stairs rise from the entrance hall to a first floor landing with further useful storage, giving access to four bedrooms and a family shower room.

The three bed dwelling is easily re-integrable into the main farmhouse if required. A separate gable end door and entrance hall opens to inter-connecting drawing, family room and kitchen area. The drawing and family rooms both have fireplaces, the latter also benefitting from French doors to the garden, while the kitchen area opens to a store room with external access. Stairs from the entrance hall descend to the cellar, and rise to the first floor with its three bedrooms and family shower room.

Outside
The property is approached by private driveway at the south-east of the site. There is further access over a separate driveway that runs alongside the range of farm buildings. The outbuildings, two of which are Grade II Listed, include enclosed and open-sided brick barns, modern cattle sheds, and some metal framed barns in disrepair, with potential for modernisation or redevelopment (STP). The formal garden surrounding the house, is in need of full landscaping, and laid mainly to lawn bordered by mature hedging and trees.

Outbuildings
Cattle Shed - A modern steel portal frame agricultural cattle and haylage shed, including seven open sided bays and two silage clamps opposite.

High Barn - Grade II Listed, situated on the roadside entrance of the site, a timber framed, brick built and timber clad barn with corrugated roof.

1915 Building - red brick building, with Dutch barn style corrugated roof including five cattle bays. 'Former Dairy' - breeze block built with sheet metal roof and covered open sided coral. This building adjoins the Cattle Shed.

Workshop - situated along the roadside, this red brick-built workshop is split into three rooms with a mezzanine area, workbenches and power supply.

Dutch Barn - this three-bay building is in a significant state of disrepair with much of the metal corrugated roof dismantled.

Piggery - red brick built and slate roofed. this building comprises two stores (the largest is Grade II Listed), adjoining open sided store, and five pig pens with additional smaller stores in disrepair.

General
Vendors costs: The purchaser(s) will be required to pay 1.5% of the agreed purchase price in addition as a contribution towards the vendors legal and surveyor’s fees. Fee due upon sale agreed, and should a sale abort then time incurred will be deducted from this fee with the balance (if any) returned to the buyer.
Sales particulars and plans: The plans and schedule of land is based on the ordnance survey. These particulars and plans are believed to be correct but neither the vendor nor their agents shall be held liable for any error, misstatement, fault or defect in the particulars and plans, neither shall such error, misstatement, fault or defect annul the sale.
Reservation of future development rights: The property is sold subject to the reservation of future development rights whereby the vendor reserves the right to 50% of any increased value for a period of 80 years in the event that planning consent is obtained for residential development thereby increasing the number of residential dwellings over and above five dwellings (which includes the existing residence classed as two residential dwellings). Payment is due when either the planning consent is implemented, or the site is sold with the benefit of planning consent.
Town & Country planning act: The property not withstanding any description within these particulars of sale, is sold subject to any Development Plan, Tree Preservation Order, Town Planning Scheme or Agreement, Resolution of Notice which may or may not come to force and also subject to any statutory or bylaw without obligation on the part of the vendor to specify them.
Boundary: The buyer will be responsible for erecting and thereafter maintaining a stockproof fence between points A-B-C, and boundary maintenance where marked with an inward T on the plan as shown online and in the brochure.
Access: Lodge Lane is privately owned by the Cheshire West & Chester Council and not adopted. The buyer will be granted a right of access for all purposes over the lane subject to a maintenance liability of a proportion of the costs, such proportion being based on the amount of use by the buyer.
Planning: Prospective purchasers are advised that they should make their own enquiries of the local planning authority.
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Location
Set in an enviable rural location adjoining the grounds of Shotwick Castle on the England/Wales border, the property sits on the fringes of Saughall village. Nearby Chester has an extensive selection of national and independent retailers together with leisure and sporting facilities including numerous eateries, rowing, sailing, and canoeing on the River Dee and several golf courses. Commuter links are excellent: the property enjoys easy access to the M56, M53 motorway networks, and Capenhurst station (3.9 miles) provides regular direct services to Chester (11 minutes) and its onward service to London Euston in around two hours.