Crumps Farm in St Nicholas-at-Wade has been sold at auction for £707,000 for the freehold with vacant possessions.
The land, previously owned by St John’s College Cambridge, was formerly a livery yard, but at present is an unoccupied farm site. The site is adjacent to the Grade I Listed Church of St Nicholas.
Crumps Farm consists of a Listed Threshing Barn, an unlisted, smaller Threshing Barn, single storey store buildings and a later Dutch Barn and semidetached Cottage. The 18th century unlisted Threshing Barn is considered to be curtilage listed.
The site also contains several modern buildings and outbuildings alongside the historic buildings.
In September 2023, two applications for change of use and development at the farm were granted by Thanet council. The applications were for conversion of the existing dilapidated Grade II Listed and unlisted Threshing Barns, Dutch Barn, Cottages and store buildings to the south. The scheme also included two new dwellings on the sites of modern farm buildings earmarked for removal.
The property was last offered for sale by Savills in April. It has now been sold by Clive Emson Auctioneers in a sale that concluded on November 1. The guide price had been listed as £500,000-plus.
