Farm with Polo Club for sale in Cambridgeshire

National Farm Agents, Bidwells are marketing for sale a truly unique property this summer. Frolic Farm, Lode, located between Cambridge and Newmarket is the home Cambridge County Polo Club, an established and professional club with extensive facilities set in 187 acres.

Offered for sale alongside the club facilities is a four-bedroom cottage, two holiday cottages, a club house (with self-contained office), event business, conventional livery yard and a reservoir, all providing significant income opportunities to a purchaser.

Matthew Alexander of Bidwells Cambridge, who is managing the sale explains “this really is a unique property – I can’t think of many farms with an actively run, professional polo clubs coming for sale. Alongside the polo club, the facilities offer an established events venue, hosting wedding receptions, corporate team building events and other celebrations. There is no limit on numbers of spectators permitted at the site and the clubhouse is permitted to serve alcohol as the premises is currently licensed.”

Until 2008, Frolic Farm was farmed in a conventional manner, located as it is on high quality Grade 1 peat soils, after which the Cambridge County Polo Club was established. The black peat soil absorbs compression and therefore provides the perfect surface for polo activity.

Included in Lot One of Frolic Farm are the facilities for the polo club, as well as land totalling 125.94 acres, including outdoor manège with a sand and rubber surface and a floodlit polo arena. Also included is stabling for 36 horses in a mix of American style boxes and traditional stables as well as a secure tack rooms, tie up areas, indoor wash down facilities, showers and WCs and a communal social area with an open fire and kitchen.

The clubhouse, known as the Punt is an impressive building, constructed of Cambridge brick and timber boarding under a slate roof, with stone flooring and large glass doors opening into the courtyard of stables. Used in association with the polo club and but also available to hire for private events, the clubhouse adjoins two well-presented holiday cottages. To the north east of the yard is the reservoir which extends to approximately 3.28 acres.

Mr Alexander adds “within Lot 1, Class Q Planning Consent has been achieved for the conversion of two existing steel portal framed agricultural buildings to five residential dwellings which could add additional opportunities for a purchaser.”

Lot 2, known as Peepers Cottage is set within 1.07 acres and is a four -bedroom two storey chalet style property with an open plan kitchen, living and dining room space, constructed in 2005. Peepers Cottage has an occupancy condition, details of which are available from the selling agent.

The remainder of the land at Frolic Farm is situated to the south east of the farm and totals approximately 60 acres of pasture and established polo pitches. The land is divided into two well-presented Hurlingham Polo Association (HPA) approved polo pitches. In addition to this, there is also paddock grazing with a piped supply of water via a connection to the borehole in the yard.