Rural Smallholdings Magazine

Set on a hillside above Monmouth, The Yew Tree offers fantastic views, versatile accomodation and a glorious garden.  The property backs onto woodland in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  It has previously been run as a nursery garden and since that time more of the garden has been levelled into terraces.

There is easy access to the M50 and the M4. There are excellent schools in Monmouth, and a bus service between Chepstow and Monmouth runs past the grounds. 

The main property has very flexible accommodation. At present the rooms are used as two reception rooms, farmhouse kitchen/dining room, 4 bedrooms, and office, a library area, and two bathrooms and an entrance hall.

The heart of the house is the large farmhouse kitchen, with a Rayburn. Stone steps lead up from it into the rest of the original cottage and 2/3 bedrooms, sitting room and bathroom. Then a beautiful new oak staircase also leads from the kitchen into a single storey extension, with another two bedrooms, sitting room and (illustrated) bathroom, with a library area and a hall.

In addition, there is a new architect designed building with a lovely central room, with two rooms and a shower room leading off it. This could be used for holiday lets (stpp) or as an office, or as further accommodation.

The property also offers a spacious stone shed with electricity, an additional stone shed currently used as a wood store.  Both of these buildings have recently been reroofed and rewired.

There is also a detached garage and polytunnel, and there are two car parks as the garden was previously an RHS open garden and open to the public.

The garden has many specimen trees including a large handkerchief tree (Davidia), areas of lawn and wildlife meadow, and a long water garden in need of some TLC. It has about an acre of bluebell woods, mostly oak and sweet chestnut.

The property could be ideal for a variety of uses, subject to planning permission, such as a return to it’s previous use as a nursery garden, a B & B or holiday let, for those looking to run a business from home as the annex would make an excellent office or those looking for self sufficiency and looking to set up a smallholding.

The property is being promoted on Greenshifters.co.uk (view full particulars).

Article by Rural Smallholding Magazine