BALLIDON MOOR FARM, Brassington
What: A handsome Grade II listed Georgian farmhouse with detached bungalow and an excellent range of traditional and modern outbuildings and around 9.36 acres of land, sitting in an elevated position in a most picturesque location.
Inside: Inside the farmhouse, many wonderful period features have been retained, to include an original cheese press, and there is generous accommodation set over three floors, with most rooms taking in unrivalled views.
Outside: Generous grounds extend in all to about 9.36 acres to include grazing land, with a range of attractive stone barns, a modern steel portal framed agricultural building, and further barns and stores.
Price: £1,850,000
Contact: Fisher German: 01332 416790, fishergerman.co.uk
The bright and beautiful village of Brassington
Nestled in the mid-Derbyshire hills between Ashbourne and Wirksworth, Brassington sits in splendid isolation, a country mile off the main road. As I drive down the lane off the B5035, the village gradually heaves into view, its grey limestone houses huddled together clinging onto the steep hillside with the 900-year-old Church of St James an appropriately dominant presence, as if presiding over its flock.
This is, as several villagers affirmed, a unique place. Brassington may feel like a typical Peak District village but its location marks the transition from the White Peak to the south Derbyshire plains.
The hills around are unquestionably unique with their striking rocky outcrops and clumps of hardy trees hiding both the caves and hollows that have yielded evidence of occupation in Iron Age and Roman times, and the shafts that were mined for lead and other minerals which, along with farming, helped develop and sustain this settlement.
When Roy Christian wrote about Brassington in Derbyshire Life in 1982, a resident referred to it as ‘an old geezer village.’ Clearly, much has changed as Brassington has enjoyed since then an influx of young families who mix well with the long-standing incumbents.
