Cowstead Farm, off Cowstead Corner roundabout, Sheppey, could be converted into homes

A Victorian farm complex near a busy roundabout is earmarked to become homes.

Buildings and barns could be converted and demolished at Cowstead Farm off Cowstead Corner roundabout, on Sheppey.

The roundabout is a key route for drivers heading west towards Sheerness and Queenborugh or going east towards Minster and Leysdown.

If the plans are approved by Swale council, there would be seven homes on the site.

The farm was purchased by Sheppey Gateway as part of five lots which were valued at more than £2.5 million and went up for sale in 2022.

Cowstead Farm was labelled as Lot 1 and valued at £1,250,000.

As well as the farm buildings it includes more than 28 acres of land – around 21 standard 11-a-side football pitches.

Meanwhile, Lot 2, valued at £135,000, could become a business park which would bring between 94 and 400 jobs to the area.

This set of proposals includes 24 commercial units as well as a retail outlet and a “drive-thru establishment”.

The other three plots are parts of Cheyney and Minster Marshes – Lot 3 and Lot 4 respectively – and Cowstead Farm Cottages – lot 5.

Lot 1 includes the main 1883 four-bed farmhouse as well as stables which were converted in 1999 into a two-bedroom home.

The plans for the farm, lodged by Sheppey Gateway, are for the barns – labelled B – at the north-western edge of the complex which would be converted into two separate two-bedroom homes.

Then the large agricultural building at the front of the property – called building I – would be demolished so that it would improve the outlook for the two buildings it sits between – buildings H and C.

There will be six new car parking spaces for these homes as part of these proposals.

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Meanwhile, the pair of barns labelled as buildings C will become a four-bedroom home. Planning permission was granted for this conversion in December.

Inculded in the same permissions is the conversion of buildings A and F which will be two three-bed homes and a two-bedroom house respectively.

The developer has also submitted a separate application for two of the other buildings – E and G – to be demolished for 15 car parking spaces for the homes that would be inside ‘car barns’.

There are currently no plans for building H as this is already a home, and there are no plans for building D.