John Clegg & Co CUMRIE FARMHOUSE & WOODLAND. Near Huntly, Aberdeenshire Hectares / Acres CHARTERED SURVEYORS & FORESTRY AGENTS

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1 John Clegg & Co CHARTERED SURVEYORS & FORESTRY AGENTS CUMRIE FARMHOUSE & WOODLAND Near Huntly, Aberdeenshire Hetares / Ares

2 Huntly 4 miles Aberdeen 42 miles Inverness 67 miles (Distanes are approximate) Edinburgh 146 miles

3 CUMRIE FARMHOUSE WOODLAND Hetares / Ares A lovely seluded traditional farmhouse and steading onversion, suitable as a family home or for holiday letting purposes, in a popular part of rural Aberdeenshire, with its own diverse mixed woodland, providing both high amenity value and timber for the future. Sporting rights inluded. FREEHOLD FOR SALE AS A WHOLE Offers Over 390,000 SOLE SELLING AGENTS John Clegg & Co, 2 Rutland Square, Edinburgh EH1 2AS Tel: Fax: Ref: Patrik Porteous

4 LOCATION Cumrie Farmhouse and Woodland is loated approximately 4 miles north of the town of Huntly in Aberdeenshire; situated in a seluded loation beside the Bin Forest, with lovely views over the surrounding woodland and farmland. Huntly has all the loal amenities one would expet, as well as a rail link to Aberdeen and Inverness. The property is shown on the loation and sale plans and an also be found on OS 1:50,000 Sheet Number 29 Grid Referene NJ ACCESS Follow the A96 north-west from Huntly for approximately 2 miles to the entrane to the Forestry Commission s Bin Forest, loated on the right and signposted Bin Forest Walks. Aess is taken north through the forest along the well-established forest road for approximately 2 miles, passing some private ottages to reah the gated entrane into Cumrie Woodland on the right, shown at point A1 on the sale plan. DESCRIPTION Cumrie Farmhouse & Steading The Farmhouse is a two-storey, traditional stone 2 bedroomed property with a pithed slate roof. Adjoining this is the steading, whih is also of traditional stone onstrution with a pithed slate roof. The steading was onverted to a high-standard 2 bedroomed apartment with en suite bathrooms, study, large living room and kithen. Both properties are in exellent ondition and enjoy a lovely seluded aspet, with views aross the woodland and beyond. The steading has the potential to be used for holiday letting purposes or as a prinipal home Cumrie Woodland The woodland was planted in 2002 on former Class 3(2) permanent pasture farmland, whih was primarily used for grazing. The woodland is now growing well with Sitka sprue and mixed broadleaves. There are also sattered open glades and rides. As former farmland, the soils are fertile and, as a result, the tree speies have established very well and show promising growth, partiularly in the high yielding Sitka sprue. There is signifiant sope to seasonally graze livestok or horses on the extensive open grassland areas within the woodland, subjet to Forestry Commission approval. Speies Area (Ha) Mixed broadleaves Sitka/Larh mix 9.79 Sitka sprue 7.82 Buildings and garden 1.00 Open ground 8.38 Total Further information is available from the Selling Agents upon request. SPORTING RIGHTS The sporting rights are inluded and Roe deer are now present within the woodland, offering good sope for deer stalking and rough shooting. BOUNDARIES The property is enlosed within a deer fene, although porous in plaes, and the fenes have been set bak from the legal boundary. MINERAL RIGHTS Mineral rights are inluded exept as reserved by Statute or in terms of the Titles. PROPERTY INFORMATION The postode for the property is AB54 4TB and the Counil Tax for the steading is and Band E ( 1, in 2015). Cumrie farmhouse is oupied under a Short Assured Tenany until 27 February, 2028, providing a rent of 285 per alendar month. The oupant is responsible for paying the Counil Tax. Both properties have double glazed UPVC windows and benefit from mains eletriity, eletri heating and open fires. The water supply is from a nearby well with water pumped through filters. Loated below eah property is a septi tank and outflow. The Energy Performane Rating is E for the steading and F for the farmhouse. Copies of the EPCs are available from the Selling Agents upon request.

5 WAYLEAVES & THIRD PARTY RIGHTS An overhead eletriity wayleave passes through the woodland and reeives an annual payment of 155. The owner has entered into a Carbon Sequestration Agreement with Futureforests on the area of broadleaves within the woodland. This has 86 years left to run and permits normal woodland management suh as thinning, felling and replanting. A opy of the agreement is available from the Selling Agents upon request. Ultimately, the property will be sold with the benefit of and subjet to all existing rights and burdens within the Titles. WOODLAND GRANTS The woodland was established under a Farm Woodland Premium Sheme in There are three remaining annual payments of 3,136, whih will be transferred to the purhaser along with the outstanding ontratual obligations. For further information on urrent grants available, please visit the FCS and Sottish Government websites: AUTHORITIES Forestry Commission Sotland Grampian Conservany Ordiquhill Portsoy Road Huntly AB54 4SJ Tel: Aberdeenshire Counil Area Offie 25 Gordon Street Huntly AB54 8AJ Tel: APPORTIONMENT The seller and tenant shall be responsible for Counil Tax and all other outgoings up to the date of ompletion. The purhasers will be held to have satisfied themselves as to the nature of all harges, rights and obligations prior to ompletion. FIXTURES & FITTINGS All furniture and fixtures within the steading are inluded in the sale. VIEWING Please ontat the Selling Agents to arrange a viewing, providing at least 48 hours prior notie of your intended visit. For your own personal safety please be aware of potential hazards within the woodland when viewing. OFFERS If you wish to make an offer on this property or would like us to inform you of a losing date for offers, it is important that you notify us in writing of your interest. Offers in Sottish Legal Form are to be submitted to the Selling Agent. SOLE SELLING AGENTS John Clegg & Co, 2 Rutland Square, Edinburgh EH1 2AS; Tel: ; Fax: Ref: Patrik Porteous. SELLER S SOLICITORS Ledingham Chalmers LLP, Johnstone House, Rose Street, Aberdeen AB10 1HA; Tel: Ref: Hazel Moir.. DN Wooden Raised Deking hw WC 2.00 x '7" x 5'1" Bedroom x '8" x 10'7" Study Area Living Room 7.11 x '4" x 12'1" (max) Kithen / Dining Room 3.89 x '9" x 9'8" En Suite 2.67 x '9" x 6'0" Steading hw En Suite 2.39 x '10" x 6'0" DN Cumrie Cottage & Steading Cairnie, Huntly, FOR IDENTIFICATION ONLY - NOT TO SCALE HONEYGRAM LTD 2015 w Raised Outdoor Patio and Garden Bedroom x '11" x 12'1" (max) hw Living Room 3.87 x '8" x 12'1" Ground Floor CWT Bedroom x '9" x 10'5" Kithen 1.85 x '1" x 5'10" Entrane Hall 3.45 x '4" x 3'3" Cottage DN UP Landing First Floor Shower Room 1.69 x '7" x 5'5" Living Room / Bedroom 3.88 x '9" x 12'4" N Bedroom x '1" x 10'5"

6 TAXATION At present, all revenue from timber sales is Inome and Corporation Tax free. There is no Capital Gains Tax on growing timber, although there may be a liability on the land. Under the Inheritane Tax regime, 100% Business Property Relief should be available on ommerial woodlands. VAT is harged on forestry work and timber sales, although its effet is neutral if managed as a business. Government grants are reeived tax free with the exeption of farm woodland and subsidy payments. IMPORTANT NOTICE John Clegg & Co LLP, its members, employees and lients give notie that: 1. These partiulars (prepared in July 2015) and all statements, areas, measurements, plans, maps, aspets, distanes or referenes to ondition form no part of any offer or ontrat and are only intended to give a fair overall desription of the property for guidane. John Clegg & Co LLP will not be responsible to purhasers, who should rely on their own enquiries into all suh matters and seek professional advie prior to purhase. 2. Neither these partiulars nor any subsequent ommuniation by John Clegg & Co LLP will be binding on its lients, whether ated upon or not, unless inorporated within a written doument signed by the sellers or on their behalf, satisfying the requirements of setion 3 of the Requirements of Writing (Sotland) At The sellers do not make or give, and neither John Clegg & Co LLP nor its members or employees nor any joint agent have any authority to make or give, any representation or warranty in relation to the property. 4. The property (whih may be subjet to rights of way, servitudes, wayleaves and others) will be sold as per the title deeds, whih may differ from these partiulars. Photographs may depit only parts of the property, whih may not have remained the same as when photographed. 5. Where referene is made to grant shemes, planning permissions or potential uses, suh information is given by John Clegg & Co LLP in good faith, but purhasers should rely on their own enquiries into those matters. 6. Prospetive purhasers should be aware of the influene and effet the Wildlife and Countryside At 1981, Nature Conservation (Sotland) At 2004 and the Wildlife and Natural Environmental (Sotland) At 2011 along with any statutory designations, may have on the property, inluding rights of publi aess under the Land Reform (Sotland) At The sellers will not be obliged to aept the highest, or indeed any, offer and may at any time aept an offer or withdraw the property from the market. Neither the sellers nor John Clegg & Co LLP will be responsible for any osts inurred by interested parties.

7 A1 CUMRIE FARMHOUSE & WOODLAND HUNTLY ABERDEENSHIRE Sole Selling Agents John Clegg & Co N metres Chartered Surveyors & Forestry Agents 2 Rutland Square Edinburgh EH1 2AS Tel Fax edinburgh@johnlegg.o.uk This plan is only for the guidane of intending purhasers. Although believed to be orret, its auray is not guaranteed and it does not form any part of any ontrat. Reprodued by permission of Ordnane Survey on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty s Stationery Offie Crown opyright. All rights reserved. Liene number

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