Uplands Stables - Thimbleby & Shorland

Uplands Stables 

Compton • Berkshire


Compton • Berkshire 

Owner’s House: 

Entrance Hall | Cloakroom | Kitchen | Dining Room 

Sitting Room | Master Bedroom with en suite, Dressing 

room and Bathroom | 5 further Bedrooms | 4 further 

Bath or Shower rooms (2 en suite) 

Trainer’s House: 

Dining Hall | Sitting Room | Office | Cloakroom 

Kitchen | Breakfast Room | 4 Bedrooms | Bathroom 

Office | Stable Flat | Annexe 

Stable Yard: 

61 loose boxes | Indoor Ride | Horse Walker 

Tack & Store Rooms 

Farm Buildings: 

Dutch Barn | 2 Covered Yards | General Purpose Barn 

Fodder Barn | Corn Store | 2 dung/silage bunkers 

All-weather & grass Gallops | Schooling field 

Post & Railed Paddocks | Pasture Fields 

In all about 172.23 acres (69.7 hectares) 

31 Great Knollys Street +44 (0)118 950 8611 

Reading, Berkshire RG1 7HU 

Website: www.tsauction.co.uk 

Fax: +44(0)118 950 5896 

Email: info@tsauction.co.uk



Row of Ten Indoor Ride Main Yard



Introduction 

Uplands was bought by the present owner in 1985 and 

has been developed into a first class Racing Stables and 

Farm. Formerly a Thoroughbred Stud, Native Bazaar 

stood at the property for many years, only 2 of the original 

stud buildings still stand today. Over the last 25 years the 

property has been comprehensively redeveloped to the 

very highest standards. 

Initially used by the present owner as a stock farm, hence 

the comprehensive range of farm buildings, in the late 

1990s new stables were built, the all-weather gallop was 

installed and later the Indoor Ride was constructed, 

creating a modern self-contained Racehorse Training 

facility set in over 170 acres of grassland in the Berkshire 

Downs. In an idyllically peaceful setting off a No Through 

Road, yet only just over 3 miles from the A34 trunk road, 

the property is ideally located. 

Since early 2007 David Arbuthnot has been training at 

the property, and within a few months had a winner at 

the Cheltenham Festival with Oscar Park. The winners 

have continued to flow, including Tropical Strait in the 

November Handicap, Listed race winner Desert Sea, and 

Topolski at this year’s Aintree meeting. 

With 2 houses, 61 high quality boxes, Indoor Ride, Office, 

All-weather and grass gallops, schooling field, 3 cattle/ 

youngstock yards, hay & straw storage, grass paddocks & 

fields, covering a total of 172 acres in a fantastic location, 

Uplands is many people’s idea of the perfect property. 

Location 

Uplands is located on the eastern side of the downland 

village of Compton, about 3 miles east of the village of 

East Ilsley and the A34, 9 miles north of Newbury (7 miles 

to the M4 Junction 13) and 20 miles east of Lambourn. 

Central London is about 55 miles. 

Compton has a village shop and a Pub, whilst there are 

good shops and amenities in Newbury, where there is also 

a fast train service to London (Paddington). Fast trains 

also run to London from Didcot, which is 14 miles to the 

north. 

There are excellent schools in the area, which is also well 

served with a wide range of sporting activities including 

Golf and Pheasant shooting. 

Description 

Owner’s House 

Located at the entrance to the property, just to the south 

of the entrance drive, with lovely views north over the 

gallops to the Downs beyond. A large detached chaletstyle 

house built in the late 1980s, the accommodation 

comprises: 

Ground Floor: Entrance Hall; Cloakroom; Kitchen; 

Dining Room; Sitting Room; Bedroom with en suite 

Dressing Room and Bathroom; Bedroom; Bathroom; 

Bedroom with en suite Shower Room 

First Floor: Bedroom; Shower room; Bedroom; Bedroom 

with en suite Shower Room. 

Attached double Garage and Billiard Room. Garden and 

parking area. Patio area to the rear (south). 

Services: Private water. Mains electricity and Drainage. 

There is a back up Generator. The central heating system 

is LPG fired, there being 2 tanks in the grounds. There 

is air conditioning to most of the rooms. Comprehensive 

burglar and fire alarm and wired for closed circuit TV 

monitors. 

Trainer’s House 

An attractive brick and tile detached house located 

adjacent to the drive and within easy reach of the 

buildings and the Office, with an integral Annexe. 

The accommodation comprises: 

Ground Floor: Dining Hall; Sitting Room; Office; 

Cloakroom; Kitchen; Breakfast Room. Annexe: Sitting 

Room; Bedroom; Kitchen; Bathroom. 

First Floor: 4 Bedrooms; Bathroom. 

Services: Private water. LPG fired central heating. Private 

drainage. Garden to the rear. 

Office 

Located adjacent to the trainer’s house, a recently built 

single storey building comprising: Reception area; shower 

Room, Kitchen, 2 office rooms. 

Stable Flat 

A single storey building of brick walls under an insulated 

box profile sheet roof attached to the side of one of the 

stable blocks and comprising: Kitchen; Sitting Room; 

Bedroom with en suite Shower Room.

Uplands is many people’s idea of the perfect property 

Stable & Farm Buildings 

Main Yard 

31 brick faced loose boxes each about 12’ x 14’, and a Feed Room, 

with Loddon doors under insulated box profile sheet roofs laid out 

in a rectangle around a concrete and rubber block yard. All boxes 

have an automatic drinker with flow monitor and heat element; a 

heat lamp; an electronic insect killer; and rubberised flooring. Water 

standpipes. 

Stable Barn 

A concrete framed building with concrete block walls under a 

corrugated fibre/cement sheet roof, with loose boxes laid out either 

side of a central passage, 7 on one side and 6 on the other, rubberised 

flooring throughout, each box about 12’ x 15’ with automatic drinker 

with flow monitor and heat element; heat lamp; sliding Loddon 

doors. Wash room with washing machine. Drying Room. Shower 

room. 

Horse Walker Barn 

Attached to the Stables Barn, about 70’ x 60’ with concrete block 

walls and Yorkshire boarding above, under a corrugated fibre/cement 

sheet roof, concrete floor, housing 6 horse Claydon Walker and a 

weighing scales, plus storage. 

Row of Stables 

A row of 10 loose boxes of the same construction as those in the 

Main Yard. 

Tack Rooms & Stores 

Brick and box profile sheet tack room and racing tack room. 

Adjacent Store. Further Workshop & Store. 

Barn 

A steel portal framed barn 100’ x 30’ with concrete wall panels at 

both ends and the back, with space boarding above, containing a row 

of 7 Loddon timber loose boxes each about 12’ x 12’ plus a feed store 

all under a box profile sheet roof, each box with automatic drinker 

with flow monitor and heat element; heat lamp; and rubberised 

flooring. 

Indoor Ride 

A steel framed oval shaped building about 1 furlong round, with box 

profile exterior cladding over timber boarded walls under box profile 

sheet roof. Rubber and sand mix surface. Irrigation. Located inside 

the oval is a timber boarded Lunge Ring about 18 metres in diameter 

with rubber and sand mix floor. 

Pictured left: The Trainer’s House 

Dutch Barn & Lean-to 

4 bay barn about 60’ x 25’ with lean-to 65’ x 25’, part clad with box 

profile sheeting under fibre/cement sheet roofs. There are 4 mobile 

homes located under the lean-to, each of which is fully wired and 

plumbed and has LPG heating. 

Covered Yard 

4 bay steel framed barn 80’ x 65’ with concrete panel walls with 

space boarding above under a fibre/cement sheet roof, sheeted gates 

to central passage with feed barriers. Water troughs. 

General Purpose Barn 

7 bay steel framed barn 140’ x 80’ with concrete panel walls to ends 

and middle, under corrugated fibre/cement sheet roof, feed barriers to 

sides. Sheeted gates at ends. Water toughs. Concrete floor. 

Covered Yard 

5 bay steel framed barn 100’ x 60’ with concrete panel walls to ends 

and middle, under corrugated fibre/cement sheet roof, feed barriers to 

sides. Sheeted gates at ends. Water toughs. Concrete floor. 

Fodder Barn 

5 bay steel framed barn 100’ x 50’ with concrete panels and box 

profile sheet cladding above to 3 sides, concrete floor, concrete block 

store with mezzanine above in end bay. 

Corn Store 

5 bay steel framed barn 100’ x 30’ with side cladding to ends, 

concrete panel wall to rear, containing 3 circular steel silos, cleaner 

and grain Mill with all attendant elevators and conveyors. 

Dung & Silage Middens 

2 concrete panel walled middens with concrete floors and dirty water 

collection tanks. 

Gallops and Schooling Field 

An all-weather gallop of just under 5 furlongs (about 985 metres) 

with a gradient runs close to the north western boundary of the 

property, alongside which is about 9 acres of grass gallops. Located 

closer to the buildings is the Schooling Field of about 7 acres, with 

an all-weather strip with fences, and 3 other lines of jumps. 

The Land 

There are 8 post and railed turnout paddocks and about 35 acres 

of post and railed grass fields. The remainder of the land is larger 

grass fields, partially post and railed, mainly used for hay production. 

There are about 6 acres of woodland, much of it planted about 15 

years ago. The soil is free-draining lime rich, over chalk. 

In all the area of the property is about 69.7 hectares (172.23 acres)

Uplands StablesThe Bungalow Uplands Farm 


Method of Sale 

The property is offered for sale as a whole, by Private Treaty. 

Tenure 

Freehold with vacant possession on completion. 

Designations and Payment Schemes 

There are Single Payment Entitlements available for the 

property which will be transferred to the buyer. 

1.8 hectares of woodland is subject to a Farm Woodland 

Premium Scheme agreement. 

The property is within the North Wessex Downs Area of 

Outstanding Natural Beauty. 

Local Authority, Council Tax and Rates 

West Berkshire Council 01635 42400. 

www.westberks.gov.uk 

Owner’s House: Council Tax Band G 

Trainer’s House: Council Tax Band F 

Stable Flat: Council Tax Band B 

Rateable Value: £34,750 

Rights of Way 

There is a public footpath running from Downs Road to 

Apple Pie Hill. 

Services 

The property has a private water supply from a borehole 

situated in the corner of the garden at the rear of the 

Trainer’s House. This is pumped into a below ground 

reservoir which then feeds the property. Mains electricity. 

Private drainage with the exception of the Owner’s House. 

Viewing 

Strictly by appointment with the Agents: Thimbleby & 

Shorland. Contact: Chris Boreham MRICS FAAV 

0118 950 8611 or 07760 888543 

email: chris@tsauction.co.uk 

Directions 

Post code RG20 6RE 

From the A34 take the turning off to East and West Ilsley. 

Proceed through East Ilsley towards Compton. Continue 

through Compton village past the School and Church. 

At the next cross roads turn left into Downs Road. The 

entrance to Uplands is on the right after about 100 yards. 

Energy Performance Certificate 

Dwelling type: Detached house 

Downs Road 

Date of assessment: 26 April 2011 

Compton 

Date of certificate: 28 April 2011 

NEWBURY 

Reference number: 0980-2868-6943-9129-6881 

RG20 6RE 

Type of assessment: RdSAP, existing dwelling 

Total floor area: 364 m 2 

This home's performance is rated in terms of the energy use per square metre of floor area, energy efficiency 

based on fuel costs and environmental impact based on carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. 

Energy Efficiency Rating 

Environmental Impact (CO 2) Rating 

Current Potential 

Current Potential 

Very energy efficient - lower running costs 

Very environmentally friendly - lower CO 2emissions 

(92 plus) 

A 

(92 plus) 

A 

(81-91) 

B 

(81-91) 

B 

(69-80) 

C 

(69-80) 

C 

(55-68) 

D 

(55-68) 

D 

(39-54) 

E 

(39-54) 

46 

E 47 

54 

(21-38) 

F 37 

(21-38) 

F 

(1-20) 

G 

(1-20) 

G 

Not Energy energy efficient Performance - higher running costs Certificate 

Not environmentally friendly - higher CO 2emissions 

EU Directive 

EU Directive 

England & Wales 

2002/91/EC 


2002/91/EC 

The Uplands energy Stables efficiency rating is a measure of the Dwelling type: The environmental Detached impact house rating is a measure of a 

overall Downs efficiency Road of a home. The higher the ratingDate of assessment: home's impact 26 on April the environment 2011 in terms of 

the Compton more energy efficient the home is and the lower Date of certificate: carbon dioxide 28 (CO April 2) emissions. 2011 The higher the 

the NEWBURY fuel bills are likely to be. 

Reference rating number: the less 0180-2868-6245-9129-1915 

impact it has on the environment. 

RG20 6RE 


Estimated energy use, carbon dioxide (CO 2) Total emissions floor area: and fuel costs 171 mof 2 this home 


based on fuel costs and environmental impact based Current on carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. Potential 

Energy use 202 kWh/m2per year 170 kWh/m2per year 


Environmental Impact (CO 

Carbon dioxide emissions 17 tonnes per year 14 tonnes 2) Rating 

per year 

Lighting Current Potential £194 per year £104 per year Current Potential 


Very environmentally friendly - lower CO 

Heating £3738 per year 2emissions 

£3238 per year 

(92 plus) 

Hot water A 

(92 plus) 

£325 per year A 


(81-91) 

B 

(81-91) 

You could save up to £646 per year B 

The (69-80) figures in the Ctable above have been provided to enable prospective (69-80) buyers Cand tenants to compare the fuel 

costs and carbon emissions of one home with another. To enable this comparison the figures have been calculated 

(55-68) 

using standardised running D 

(55-68) 

conditions (heating periods, room temperatures, etc.) that Dare the same for all homes, 

consequently they are unlikely to match an occupier's actual fuel bills and carbon emissions in practice. The figures 

(39-54) 

do not include the impacts E 

(39-54) 

of the fuels used for cooking or running appliances, such as TV, E 

51 

fridge etc.; nor do they 

reflect (21-38) the costs associated with F service, maintenance 34 or safety (21-38) inspections. Always check the F certificate date 

because fuel prices can change over time and energy saving recommendations will evolve. 29 

(1-20) 

G 

(1-20) 

9 

G 

Not Energy energy efficient Performance - higher running costs Certificate 


Remember to look for the Energy Saving Trust Recommended logo when buying energy-efficient 

England & Wales products. It's a quick EU Directive and easy way to identify the most energy-efficient products on EU the Directive market. 

2002/91/EC 


2002/91/EC 

This EPC and recommendations report may be given to the Energy Saving Trust to provide you with 

The Stable energy Flat efficiency information rating is on a improving measure your of the dwelling's Dwelling energy type: The performance. environmental Semi-detached impact rating bungalow is a measure of a 

overall Uplands efficiency Stables of a home. The higher the ratingDate of assessment: home's impact 26 on April the environment 2011 in terms of 

the Downs more Road, energy Compton efficient the home is and the lower Date of certificate: carbon dioxide 28 (CO April 2) emissions. 2011 The higher the 

the NEWBURY fuel bills are likely to be. 

Reference rating number: the less 8589-6224-8580-2638-2926 

impact it has on the environment. Page 1 of 6 

RG20 6RE 


Estimated energy use, carbon dioxide (CO 2) Total emissions floor area: and fuel costs 59 m 2 of this home 


based on fuel costs and environmental impact based Current on carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. Potential 

Energy use 408 kWh/m2per year 256 kWh/m2per year 


Environmental Impact (CO 

Carbon dioxide emissions 14 tonnes per year 8.1 tonnes 2) Rating 

per year 

Lighting Current Potential £104 per year £104 per year Current Potential 


Very environmentally friendly - lower CO 

Heating £3288 per year 2emissions 


(92 plus) 

Hot water A 

(92 plus) 

£460 per year A 


(81-91) 

B 

(81-91) 

You could save up to £1470 per year B 

The (69-80) figures in the Ctable above have been provided to enable prospective (69-80) buyers Cand tenants to compare the fuel 


(55-68) 

using standardised running D conditions (heating periods, 59 room temperatures, etc.) that D 

68 

(55-68) 

are the same for all homes, 


(39-54) 

do not include the impacts E 

(39-54) 

of the fuels used 41 for cooking or running appliances, such as TV, E 52 

fridge etc.; nor do they 

reflect (21-38) the costs associated with F service, maintenance or safety (21-38) inspections. Always check the F certificate date 

because fuel prices can change over time and energy saving recommendations will evolve. 

(1-20) 

G 

(1-20) 

G 

Not energy efficient - higher running costs 



England & Wales products. It's a quick EU Directive and easy way to identify the most energy-efficient products on EU the Directive market. 

2002/91/EC 


2002/91/EC 


The energy efficiency information rating is on a improving measure your of the dwelling's energy The performance. environmental impact rating is a measure of a 

overall efficiency of a home. The higher the rating home's impact on the environment in terms of 

the more energy efficient the home is and the lower carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions. The higher the 

the fuel bills are likely to be. 

rating the less impact it has on the environment. Page 1 of 6 

EPC - Owner’s House 

EPC - Trainer’s House 

EPC - Stable Flat 

Estimated energy use, carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and fuel costs of this home 

Current 

Potential 

kWh/m2per year 

Energy use 283 kWh/m2per year 189 

Carbon dioxide emissions 3.8 tonnes per year 2.5 tonnes per year 

Lighting £60 per year £33 per year 

Heating £704 per year £492 per year 

Hot water £242 per year £171 per year 

You could save up to £310 per year 

The figures in the table above have been provided to enable prospective buyers and tenants to compare the fuel 


using standardised running conditions (heating periods, room temperatures, etc.) that are the same for all homes, 


do not include the impacts of the fuels used for cooking or running appliances, such as TV, fridge etc.; nor do they 

reflect the costs associated with service, maintenance or safety inspections. Always check the certificate date 

because fuel prices can change over time and energy saving recommendations will evolve. 

Important Notice Thimbleby & Shorland for themselves 

and for the Vendors give notice that these particulars 

and plan are for guidance only and whilst believed to be 

correct no guarantee of warranty as to their accuracy is 

given or implied. Any mis-statement or error shall not 

invalidate a sale nor entitle either party to compensation 


or give rise products. to an It's a action quick and easy of way Law. to identify the Intending most energy-efficient Purchasers products on the market. must 


satisfy themselves information on improving as to your the dwelling's correctness energy performance. of any statements 

by inspection or otherwise. The plan included with these Page 1 of 6 

particulars is for identification purposes only. 

Pictured below: The Owner’s House, the Jumps Field & a view of the Gallop

Boundary Plan

31 Great Knollys Street +44 (0)118 950 8611 

Reading, Berkshire RG1 7HU 

Website: www.tsauction.co.uk 

Fax: +44(0)118 950 5896 

Email: info@tsauction.co.uk

Uplands Stables - Thimbleby & Shorland

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