Inside the charming £4m Grand Designs-style farmhouse that comes with 40 acres of land

A charming farmhouse, that looks like it could have featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs, has come on the market for £4,275,000. The unique abode, which comes complete with a whopping 40 acres of land, is up for sale in Alderley Edge, an affluent village inside Cheshire's Golden Triangle.

Properties in Alderley Edge had an average house price of £841,497 over the last year, with prices having gone up by 10 percent since the previous year, showing the high demand to live in the area.

Alderley Wood Farm sits at the end of a private cobbled lane set amongst rolling countryside, just south of Wilmslow. Its main 18th-century farmhouse has been designed by architects Annabelle & Co, having been recently renovated and combined with its adjacent cottage.

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The main house and cottage boast six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in total, and span around 4,100 square foot. There is also a further 11,000 square foot of outhouses, barns and stables with potential for conversion, subject to relevant permissions, included in the price.

One of these, a 4,490 sq ft brick barn, has already been converted into a stunning design by the architects as an office for their practice and features exposed brick walls and beams.

The Rightmove listing for Alderley Wood Farm states: "The house, its ancillary buildings and surrounding paddocks and ponds can be accessed from the long cobbled no-through lane or via paths through fields from Artists Lane to the north, where an alternative, more private driveway could be forged.

"The main house is approached along a private driveway to the west of the farmyard. It was originally constructed in 1748 by Lord Stanley as