£1 million Bradfield St Clare farmhouse comes complete with 8 acres, a barn and a milking parlour

Located on a quiet rural lane, Pitchers Green Farmhouse offers a rich history and the opportunity to enjoy the good life on a plot of just over eight and a half acres.

The property at Bradfield St Clare was once a larger dairy farm which, beyond the boundaries of the land currently for sale, included Hellesden Ley – a field claimed by some to be the site where King Edmund’s decapitated head was found by a wolf in 869 AD.

The Grade II listed farmhouse, believed to be 17th century or earlier, requires renovation and modernisation but retains much of its historic character.

It is being marketed by Jackson-Stops with a guide price of £1 million.

The accommodation comprises, on the ground floor, an entrance hall, drawing room, sitting/dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room and cloakroom. There is also an attached lean-to.

Upstairs (the property has two staircases) are five bedrooms and a bathroom.

Outbuildings, which are not listed in their own right, include a timber-framed and weatherboarded five-bay threshing barn (circa 1800), a milking parlour and a cart lodge.

The house benefits from a garden to the side and the front.

The fields provide mature pasture extending to about 7.25 acres, hedge enclosed with a dividing hedge between the two.

- 01284 700535 / jackson-stops.co.uk