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Pear Tree Farm For Sale

Since 1998, my wife and I have lived at Pear Tree Farm, Bowness on Solway, in north Cumbria, in a house overlooking the sea. The site where the house stands is the centre of what was once the second largest fort on Hadrian’s Wall, known as Maia. The courtyard of our house is where the granary for the fort once stood.

From our rear windows we look across the Solway Firth to Annan and south-west Scotland just a mile and a half away. This means we delight in the changes of the Seasons up close from our terrace at the rear of the house: the sun sparkling on the waters in the Spring and Summer, watching the haaf-netters in water up to their waists fishing for salmon; the astounding Autumn sunsets that turn the evening sky every shade of red and gold in nature’s palette; and the raw beauty of the estuary in Winter. Twice a year, in April and October, we experience the awe-inspiring sight of the mass migration of thousands of geese as they fly past our house along the Estuary.

The village of Bowness on Solway is small (only 80 houses) but with a thriving, very friendly community; and protected against expansion by the fact of it being on a World Heritage site; part of an important RSPB site, a conservation village, all of which ensures the peace and tranquillity stays as a constant. It is delightfully rural, but not isolated. The city of Carlisle, with the M6 motorway, and high-speed rail connections to London and Glasgow, is just twelve miles to the east; with the small bustling market town of Wigton a few miles to the south. Keswick, the heart of the Lake District, is just a short drive away through the magnificent northern Lakeland fells.

Bowness on Solway has a great pub, a highly-rated primary school, a small Post Office, and is even on a regular bus route to Carlisle, with frequent buses every day. In a word, an ideal place for tranquillity without isolation.

But now we are leaving. Family considerations are leading us to move from Cumbria, but with regrets. Pear Tree Farm and its place overlooking the Solway Firth is, we believe, rare and special.

The house has four bedrooms (one en-suite), a large drawing room/dining room, a courtyard with a garden room, a purpose-built snooker room (with a full-size antique snooker table included in the price) plus dual level library. Full details of the house can be found at the following link at the agents, Hayward Tod of Carlisle

We hope Pear Tree Farm will go to people who will get as much pleasure from the house and setting as we’ve had. If you’re interested, then please come and see it for yourself. And you’ll need to see more than just the original Eighteenth Century farmhouse that fronts onto the street. The real wonders are through the stone arch and across the courtyard to the main house, and the sea views.