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Guide Price£315,000

Land Off Fen Street, Fen Street, Old Buckenham, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17

Land size
31.53 acres

Key Features

  • Productive arable land comprising two fields with a good access
  • Land is all of good quality being Grade 3
  • The property is offered for sale by private treaty as a whole.

Description

Productive arable land comprising two fields with a good access

Land is all of good quality being Grade 3

The property is offered for sale by private treaty as a whole.

ARABLE LAND OFF FEN STREET, OLD BUCKENHAM

Productive arable land

31.53 acres in total

FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY AS A WHOLE

DESCRIPTION

The land off Fen Street offers purchasers the opportunity to acquire a parcel of productive arable land comprising two fields with a good access and long-term development potential, subject to planning.

The land is all of good quality being Grade 3 and identified by Soil Survey of England & Wales as Burlingham 1 Series being a deep coarse and fine loamy soil with a slowly permeable sub-soil considered suitable for cereals, peas, beans and sugar beet.

The land is located to the west of the centre of the village of Old Buckenham, approximately 4 miles south of Attleborough and 20 miles south west of the Cathedral City of Norwich.

The What3Words reference for the access to the land is: ///risk.science.perplexed

PAST CROPPING

2021 - Winter Wheat
2022 - Spring Barley
2023 - Winter Wheat
2024 - Oilseed
2025 - Winter Wheat

METHOD OF SALE

The property is offered for sale by private treaty as a whole.

TENURE & POSSESSION

The property is offered for sale freehold with vacant possession upon completion.

EXCHANGE OF CONTRACTS & COMPLETION

Exchange of contracts will take place within 21 days of receipt by the purchasers' solicitor of a draft contract with completion no later than 28 days thereafter. A deposit of 10% of the purchase price will be payable on exchange of contracts.

AGENTS NOTE

The land is to be sold subject to an overage agreement for 30 years under which 30% of any uplift in value attributable to a change of use from agriculture will be payable to the seller. The overage would be triggered on the sooner of the implementation of the planning permission or the sale of the site subject to the planning permission.

The value will be assessed at the date of planning permission and payable on the earlier of the commencement of the development or sale of the property, allowing the costs of obtaining the permission (s) as a deduction. The Base Value will be reassessed at the date of each trigger event.

OUTGOINGS

All outgoings will be apportioned on completion.

SPORTING, MINERAL & TIMBER

These are included in the sale so far as they are owned, subject to statutory exclusions.

VIEWING

By appointment with the selling agents Brown & Co. Please contact Sarah Lucas.

Map Location

Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
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Date Posted
2026-01-29

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 56 Farmland & Pasture listings in East Anglia (25+ acres).

This Property£9,990 / acre
Farmland & Pasture Average (25+ acres) £9,367 / acre
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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
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Water
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Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre · available to 93% of premises

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Old Buckenham Primary School0.7 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 11
    Pupils
    184
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Banham Primary School2.1 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    95
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Rosecroft Primary School2.3 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    457
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Attleborough Primary School2.6 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    365
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Kenninghall Primary School3.6 milesOfsted report card · Jun 2026
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    104
    Type
    Academy sponsor led

Secondary

  • Old Buckenham High School0.8 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    501
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Attleborough Academy2.7 milesOfsted report card · Mar 2026
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    976
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Wymondham College4.6 milesOfsted: Outstanding
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,427
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Wymondham High Academy7.6 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,686
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Diss High School7.9 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    877
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Daily Banham, Banham2.4 miles
Sainsburys Attleborough, Attleborough2.5 miles
Lidl Attleborough, Attleborough2.6 miles

GP surgery

Attleborough Surgery2.4 miles

Pharmacy

Allied Pharmacy Church Street2.6 miles

Hospital

Hartismere Hospital12 miles

Green space

Public Park Or Garden539 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Attleborough Rail Station2.3 miles

Nearest bus stop

Green978 metres

Typical drive times

Diss16 min · 11 miles
Hingham15 min · 8.7 miles
Wymondham13 min · 8.9 miles
Attleborough6 min · 3.2 miles
Norwich (city)29 min · 18 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

A 1 in 30 or greater chance each yearHigher risk

Mapped within the area searched, not at the advertised map pin itself.

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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