Off-grid Cumbria farmhouse to renovate

Right, I promise to move away from the rural farmhouse thing for a while after this post. But I just had to show you this one. I think I'm in love.
It's in Cumbria and, on a personal level, I'm not Cumbria's biggest fan. Yes, I know about the walking and the views and the beaches and the tearooms, but honestly - does the sun ever shine on Cumbria?
Even these prettily-filtered photos have dark clouds rolling in.

Swindale Head is a five bedroom farmhouse with attached workshop and barn. We're talking remote, off-grid loveliness here.
Built in 1630, Swindale Head isn't connected to mains electricity and drainage is by septic tank.
It does however have a mains water supply, BT phone line, and electricity is currently provided by its own generator and battery bank. And there are stoves or fireplaces in all the main rooms.
Honestly, I'm utterly besotted.

In quiet Swindale Valley, about ten miles from Penrith, the house is the last property on single-track Swindale Lane, and has Swindale Beck running just beyond and past the enclosed garden area.
Swindale Head comes with 0.66 acre of land, plus outbuildings and wood store.

This is away-from-it-all stuff. Wainwright described described Swindale as a "shy and beautiful little valley" and noted the lack of traffic compared to areas rather more frequented by tourists.
Downstairs is the hall, living room, kitchen/family room, bathroom (I'd move that upstairs), and access to the workshop. Upstairs are five decent-sized bedrooms and a boxroom.

Outside, is a large barn housing the Lister generator and battery bank.

On the market through PFK but be quick - offers deadline is this Friday,  22 June. Offers around £285k. More here and here.

Four rural farmhouses with land

I think you could say this is Louise's post more than it's mine. Reader Louise has sent me a positive deluge of gorgeous wrecks over the last few weeks, and I've put the best ones into this post. So sit back, relax, dream with Louise.
We'll start at the top of the tree price-wise, with the lovely Waterloo House above and below. On the outskirts of the Shropshire town/village of Clun, it comes with around half-an-acre of land rolling down to to the River Clun.

There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, plus two attic rooms, and two reception rooms, kitchen, pantry and scullery downstairs.

Outside is garden area, a courtyard and a large, two-storey stone barn.

On the market through Strutt & Parker (they do the loveliest property photos...) with a guide price of £425k. Details here and here.
This stunning wreck of a farmhouse (below) at Clayton-Le-Woods, Lancashire, comes with just under an acre of land.

There are five bedrooms plus two large attic rooms, bathroom, a bundle of reception rooms, kitchen and cellar, and lots of period details.

What I love most about those pictures is the signs of someone living there - the weights in the bedroom, the dog bowls on the floor, the fishing rods against the wall. Somebody will miss wandering around this beautiful wreck.
It's Grade II listed, built around 1700, and has an interesting past. Hawksmoor farmhouse sits in pretty and secluded rural area, accessed by  private track.
On the market through Peter E Gilkes at £275k. More here and here.
This next one has a deadline for final offers of Thursday June 14th.
The lovely three-bedroom detached cottage is at Ratlinghope, in the South Shropshire hills.
Used as a holiday cottage by the same family for 40 years, it needs work but, as well as being surrounded by stunning open views, comes with 3.6 acres of its own land to run wild in.

On the market through Samuel Wood at offers around £200k by June 14th. More here and here.
Also on a deadline is the three-bedroom house, below, a couple of miles from historic Ludlow in Shropshire.

Beautiful views from its hillside position, and a good chunk of land (around half an acre) to play with.

Bathroom is downstairs and rooms are a bit higglegy-piggedly, but lots of potential here.
The last person to live here was an old chap who loved gardening. Do him proud.
On the market at offers over £235k, with a deadline for bids of July 5th, via Strutt & Parker. More here and here.
Louise incidentally is an Aussie living in Canada, who came across Wreck while looking for visual inspiration for her writing. She's now addicted to looking at English property: "Argh. So many prettys"! Yep, we're with you on that, Louise!

Farmhouse and cottage to renovate

I'm partial to a two-for-one property deal and this gorgeous farmhouse comes with an attached (albeit not quite so gorgeous) cottage.
East Farm is off the A645, Broach Lane at Little Heck, a few miles from Goole. The location itself is pretty decent. Goole isn't the prettiest of towns (I'm saying that as someone from Hull, with an inbuilt reluctance to see charm in any other East Yorkshire city) but East Farm's location offers both rural views and easy commuter access to the M62 and M18.
The property obviously needs work, but it's a good size with lots of possibilities. However, if you're interested, you need to get a move on - offers on East Farm close this week.

The house itself is a good size. A detached farmhouse with hall, two reception rooms, a massive, 20ft x 11ft kitchen, plus pantry, utility room, downstairs shower room, and cellar.

Upstairs are four bedrooms, the bathroom (yay!), and dressing/box room.

And above that are two attic rooms and a storeroom, reached by a staircase.

The attached "cottage" has one room downstairs and one upstairs.

Outside is a large garden and views over adjoining farmland. The streetview shows a road largely empty of other buildings.

It's for sale through agents Townend Clegg & Co at offers around £200k. The deadline for offers is this Friday - June 8th - and the last formal viewing date is tomorrow, Tuesday 5th June, at 6pm. Contact the agents on 01405 471948 to book. Details here and here.