Foxglove Farm, near Chadlington, is next to Diddly Squat Farm and around a mile away from Clarkson’s shop
Fancy being Jeremy Clarkson’s neighbour? The property next door to his famous Diddly Squat Farm is for sale with Knight Frank for £3.85 million.
Foxglove Farm, an eight-bedroom stone farmhouse with more than nine acres of land, is located near Chadlington, a village in the Cotswolds. It sits next to Clarkson’s farm, and around a mile from Diddly Squat Farm Shop.
Clarkson bought his 1,000-acre farm in 2008, taking over the running of it himself in 2019 and documenting the process in his successful Prime Video show, Clarkson’s Farm, which has been commissioned for a sixth series.
Clarkson farms livestock and crops —winter wheat, durum wheat, spring barley and oilseed rape are his big four— and has since demolished the farmhouse which stood on the land, building an Arts and Crafts-style mansion with tennis courts and an outdoor pool in its place.
In 2020, Clarkson opened Diddly Squat Farm Shop, following it up with a restaurant which closed after a year following a planning battle with Oxfordshire council. He bought a pub in nearby Burford for £810,000 in 2024, renaming it The Farmer’s Dog.
Clarkson’s enterprises have not always been popular with his neighbours. In 2023, before series two of his TV programme aired, the broadcaster claimed that some locals were unhappy with the interest that the farm shop had generated.
“The farm shop is over a mile from the village so it’s of no consequence, really, to the people who hate me. In a way, the village is divided. It’s difficult to say how many people support us in the village and how many don’t,” he said.
“Some of it, I’m sure, comes from my past, and driving quickly around corners while shouting, and they didn’t find that appealing.”
He added: “If they’ve got a house name, they tend not to like us, because they tend to have moved here from London quite recently, and they don’t want crowds of people coming to the farm shop, so that seems to me to be the split. That’s about as tightly as I can put it.”
Clarkson’s planning troubles with his shop are still ongoing. In 2023, he gained permission to extend its car park in order to accommodate the crowds of visitors, on the condition that the land would be restored to its original state after three years.
In April, however, Clarkson applied to extend this time limit to 31 December 2030, arguing that “the site continues to be popular and attracts sufficient customers to warrant the provision of additional parking”. The application is still under consideration.
If that doesn’t put you off, though, Foxglove Farm could be the house for you.
The sale includes the main stone farmhouse, a two-car garage, two stables and detached cottage. On the land, there’s a paddock, orchard and a series of landscaped gardens.
Spanning 4,245 square feet, the stone farmhouse was built in 1954 and has been modernised and extended to almost double its original size by the owners.
Downstairs, there’s a kitchen and breakfast room, dining room, living room and sitting room, which opens out onto the garden. In true Cotswolds style, there’s a stone floor, farmhouse sink and an earthy, textured palette.
Upstairs, there are five bedrooms with views of the surrounding countryside. There’s also a spiral wine cellar with capacity for more than 600 bottles.
The detached cottage, meanwhile, is arranged over two floors, with two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room with a vaulted ceiling.
“Foxglove Farm has been enjoyed by a multigenerational London and Oxfordshire-based family, who have also let out the annexe over the years,” says Harry Sheppard at Knight Frank.
“It is a perfect entry-level smallholding, with the land having been home to animals including goats, sheep and horses. The family are not using it as much as in previous years, as children grow up and are drawn back to London, and are now ready to pass it on to a new owner.”
