A former dairy farm that extends to over 100ac has recently been offered up for sale on the Antrim-Down border.

The property includes a five-bedroom dwelling house and farmyard with a range of buildings. The farm is located on the Meeting House Road in Upper Ballinderry, around six miles from Lisburn.

The farm has good-quality, arable-type land

The sale is being managed by Ballyclare-based auctioneers J.A. McClelland and Sons and it has a guide price of £1.2m (€1.4m), or £11,460/ac (€13,526/ac).

The property extends to 104.7ac in total, of which 99.9ac is eligible for area-based payments. The farm has good-quality, arable-type land, although it is all laid out in grass at present and is well fenced for cattle.

The farm has good quality, arable type land.

The land runs in a compact block which is accessible from the main yard via a series of intersected hardcore laneways. There is a single outlaying field located across the road which can be sold separately, if required.

The centrally located farmyard has private laneway access from the Meeting House Road and has a mains water supply.

Farm buildings on the property have been well-maintained and kept in good repair by the current owners. The yard includes two round-roof cubicle houses, a shed which is currently laid out in wooden cubicles, a lean-to shed, an open silo and a covered silo.

The two-storey dwelling house has two reception rooms, a modern fitted kitchen, an office and five bedrooms

There is also a machinery shed on the property and a row of traditional farm buildings which includes a workshop and former 10-cow byre. The two-storey dwelling house has two reception rooms, a modern fitted kitchen, an office and five bedrooms. The property has double-glazed uPVC windows, has been well maintained and is in good decorative order throughout.

There is a garden which is mostly laid out in lawn with a range of mature shrubs and trees. To the side of the dwelling house is a separate former kitchen garden.

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