County Durham farm on banks of River Tees with caravan park and holiday cottages for sale for £4.5m

A riverside County Durham farm with a caravan park and holiday cottages has gone up for sale.

Low Shipley Farm, which has access to the Teesdale Way, has been developed to include several rural enterprises. The four bedroom farmhouse is Grade II listed and has views over the North Pennines National Landscape, while there are a further two cottage properties which have been converted from traditional stone buildings to holiday lets.

There is a further stone barn which has planning consent for conersion to become a third holiday cottage. The farm is opposite the village of Cotherstone, around five miles north of Barnard Castle, and under current arrangements its principal enterprise is a caravan park which can be occupied from March 1 to October 30 each year.

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Farmland at Low Shipley covers 118.66 acres, with Grade Four meadow land suited to long term leys, and field parcels fenced for livestock. There is also 13 acres of amenity woodland, while a wildlife pond lies partly within the Shipley and Great Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

John Coleman, head of farm and land sales at GSC Grays, said that the farm was in a "superb" location by the River Tees. He added: "The farm has developed into a diverse rural business, seamlessly integrating holiday lettings and a caravan park with its traditional farming operations."

Low Shipley Farm is being marketed through GSC Grays, with the firm inviting offers of £4.5m and above. For more information, visit the listing on their website.