Oaklands House Haywood Lane: A £2.5m Estate at offers over £1.65m

Some properties come to the market because the time is right. Oaklands House, Haywood Lane, Baddesley Clinton is coming to the market because the owner’s circumstances have changed — and for the right buyer, that distinction matters enormously. Partridge Homes has been exclusively instructed to offer this approximately 13-acre countryside holding near Lapworth and Knowle at Offers Over £1,650,000, to serious buyers only. The current owner paid £2,500,000 for the complete estate in 2022 and has since invested approximately £200,000 to £250,000 in planning and professional work. He now wants to sell and move on promptly.

That is the opportunity, plainly stated.

What the Oaklands Holding Actually Comprises

Oaklands is not simply a house with a garden. The complete holding acquired by the current owner in 2022 comprises:

• The existing Oaklands residence, a substantial detached country home of approximately 4,000 sq ft
• Approximately one acre of grounds and paddock directly associated with the house
• Approximately 12 acres of additional adjoining land

Together, that creates a circa 13-acre countryside estate in one of the most sought-after rural pockets of the Solihull borough, sitting between the villages of Lapworth, Knowle and Baddesley Clinton. The land gives the property a scale and privacy that a conventional luxury purchase simply cannot replicate.

The property address is formally recorded as Haywood Lane, Baddesley Clinton, Solihull, B93 0DG. Online searches may also return it under Oaklands Lapworth, Oaklands Knowle, or Oaklands House B93 0DG. These all refer to the same property.

The Planning Package

This is where the opportunity becomes considerably more than a straightforward country house purchase. The current owner spent a substantial amount of time and money working with architects, planning consultants and other professionals to establish what could be created at Oaklands. That work has produced a meaningful package of consents.

A Bespoke Replacement Dwelling

Planning permission has been secured for a replacement dwelling on the site. For a buyer who wants to create a home built entirely around their own specification — rather than buying and adapting somebody else’s finished house — this consent removes one of the most significant hurdles in the process. The location, the acreage and the privacy are already there. Much of the planning journey has already been completed.

A Dedicated Leisure Facility

Separate planning has been obtained for a leisure building. Depending on the approved plans and relevant conditions, this could accommodate facilities such as a swimming pool, gym, spa and associated leisure space. For a high-net-worth buyer, the ability to create a genuine estate-style arrangement, with leisure facilities in a dedicated building rather than compromised into the main residence, is one of the more compelling elements of the package.

An Agricultural Storage Building

Planning has also been secured for an agricultural building intended for hay and machinery storage, with associated access. With approximately 12 acres of land to manage, this has obvious practical value.

You Do Not Have to Demolish the Existing House

It is worth being clear on this point. The planning permissions create options, not obligations. A buyer who prefers to retain the existing Oaklands residence and undertake a comprehensive refurbishment rather than a complete rebuild can do exactly that. The existing house already provides a substantial footprint in an exceptional position. One buyer may want a contemporary new-build super-home. Another may want an elegantly refurbished country residence surrounded by exceptional grounds. Another may want a working rural estate with leisure facilities, land and ancillary buildings. The planning package accommodates more than one vision.

The Pricing: Why offers over £1.65m When £2.5m Was Paid?

This is the first question serious buyers will ask, and it deserves a direct answer.

The current owner paid £2,500,000 for the complete Oaklands holding in 2022. He then invested approximately £200,000 to £250,000 in professional fees, architectural work, surveys, planning applications and associated costs. He has never lived at the property. Oaklands was acquired as a personal development project, something separate from his day-to-day business interests, and the intention was to create an exceptional countryside residence.

Personal circumstances have since changed. Rather than continuing with a project that no longer suits those circumstances, the owner has decided to sell and allow somebody else to take the opportunity forward. That decision has driven the pricing strategy.

The property is being marketed at Offers Over £1,650,000. This is not a distressed sale, and it is not an invitation for speculative low offers. Serious buyers will be given a 14-day marketing period to inspect the property, review the planning documentation and submit their best and final position. The owner’s intention is to agree a sale and progress matters promptly with the right purchaser.

Why Does the Internet Show £675,000?

A number of online property databases and AI-generated property searches are currently displaying £675,000 as the last sold price for Oaklands, Haywood Lane. This figure needs to be addressed clearly, because it is misleading.

The £675,000 figure originates from a Land Registry transaction recorded in June 2002. It has nothing to do with the current owner’s acquisition.

The current owner acquired the complete Oaklands holding, comprising the main residence, the one-acre paddock and approximately 12 acres of additional land, in 2022 for £2,500,000. An error in the registration of that transaction meant that only a proportion of the overall package was reflected in the data subsequently distributed to online property portals and other websites that rely on Land Registry information. The Land Registry documentation itself confirms the £2,500,000 acquisition.

The issue has been raised with Land Registry and is in the process of being corrected. Once the amended information feeds through the various property-data systems, the corrected figure should begin appearing across portals and other websites. There is naturally a delay between the underlying correction being made and the change appearing everywhere online.

Anyone researching Oaklands should not treat the £675,000 figure as a representation of what the current owner paid for the complete estate in 2022. It is not.

The Location: Baddesley Clinton, Lapworth and Knowle

Baddesley Clinton sits in the rural southern reaches of the Solihull borough, close to the Warwickshire border. The village is small, genuinely quiet, and surrounded by greenbelt countryside. Two National Trust properties, Baddesley Clinton manor house and Packwood House, are within easy reach. The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal runs nearby, with canalside walks and bridleways accessible from the surrounding lanes.

Despite the rural setting, the location is not remote. Dorridge and Knowle are around five minutes away by car. Solihull town centre is approximately 20 minutes. The HS2 Solihull Interchange Station is approximately nine miles away, with projected journey times to London of around 38 minutes once operational. For a buyer who needs to travel regularly but wants to come home to genuine countryside, the position is difficult to fault.

Properties in this part of Solihull rarely come to market. The most recent Land Registry transaction recorded on Haywood Lane itself was in 2019, at £1,350,000 (Land Registry, 2025). A holding of this scale, with this planning package, in this location, has not been available.

Key Facts at a Glance

A Project Where Much of the Hard Work Is Already Done

Anyone who has tried to obtain meaningful planning consent in a prestigious rural location will understand what that process involves. Architects, planning consultants, surveys, design revisions, applications, professional reports, negotiation and time. It is expensive and it is slow, and it does not always succeed.

The current owner has already done a considerable amount of that work at Oaklands. A purchaser is therefore acquiring not only the property and the land but the benefit of a substantial planning and professional process that has already been completed. That has real value, beyond the bricks and mortar.

For somebody with the vision and resources to take the project forward, the combination of the setting, the acreage, the existing residence, and the planning package creates something that would be extremely difficult to assemble from scratch. The canvas is there. The planning foundations are in place. What the finished estate looks like is for the next owner to decide.

Oaklands House is exclusively available through Partridge Homes at Offers Over £1,650,000. If this opportunity is of interest, the team at Partridge Homes would welcome a conversation. Reach the team directly via the Partridge Homes contact page to register your interest and request the full planning documentation ahead of the 14-day offer deadline.

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