Uplands Stables - Thimbleby & Shorland

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Uplands Stables Compton • Berkshire 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)
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