A Suffolk farm with a farmyard but no house has hit the market with a guide price of £2.5m.

Hill Farm - a productive arable farm at Chedburgh, south-west of Bury St Edmunds - is being sold as a whole or in two lots. 

Property agent William Hargreaves, who leads the rural agency team for Savills in Suffolk, said it was "relatively rare" to find a farm in such good order that doesn’t have a separate farmhouse.

They are expecting interest from a wide range of buyers as the buildings could have potential for other uses subject to planning consent, he suggested.

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The farmhouse was a responsibility that not everybody wants, he said. Lot 1 comprising the farm buildings and eight acres is being offered up for £400k and lot 2 comprising the majority of the land - about 233 acres in all - for £2.1m.

With easy access from the main road, it represents an "excellent opportunity" for a commercial buyer, said Mr Hargreaves.

The sale includes a range of livestock and general purpose buildings alongside six large fields suited to modern farming methods and for growing conventional cereal crops.

"Available as a whole, the property is also being marketed in two separate lots as we believe the buildings – although very much suited to agricultural use – could have potential, subject to planning, for alternative uses.

"Consequently, we are expecting plenty of interest from a range of buyers.”

The farmyard - with livestock and general purpose farm buildings - can be accessed via a private farm track leading from the A143.

It includes an extensive area of open storage and hardcore to enable lorries to turn in the yard. The buildings are connected to mains water and electricity.

To the south of the farm buildings are a pair of fenced grass paddocks let under a Farm Business Tenancy which expires in September 2025.

The other lot comprises six large arable fields described as being of "sufficient scale and shape" to be ideal for modern farming methods. There are also smaller areas of grassland and unproductive areas.

Access to the public highway is from an internal farm track along the spine of the farm and via Queen's Lane. There is also an additional right of way over an adjoining farm track on third party-owned land.

In recent years the farm, used to grow high-yielding conventional cereal crops has been occupied by a "very good" local farmer under a Contract Farming Agreement who is understood to be pleased to continue to farm the land for the purchaser.