It's the VERY Good Life! 16th century farmhouse set in 31 acres complete with walled vegetable garden and award-winning creamery goes on the market for £1.7m

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A 16th century farmhouse set in 31 acres where a popular goat's cheese is produced has gone on the market for £1.7million.

Hill Farm, situated near Wellington in Somerset, offers city dwellers the perfect opportunity to escape the rat race.

The buyer will get a Grade II* listed farmhouse, as well as 31 acres including a cottage, traditional outbuildings, a range of modern cheese making buildings, a dairy and an award-winning creamery. 

It also has a walled vegetable garden, woodland and single bank fishing rights.

Hill Farm (pictured) is situated in the village of Stawley in south-west Somerset - it has gone on the market for £1.7million

The buyer will get a Grade II* listed farmhouse, as well as 31 acres including a cottage, traditional outbuildings, a range of modern cheese making buildings, a dairy and an award-winning creamery

The dining table which leads through to the kitchen inside the Grade II* listed five-bedroom property in Somerset

The kitchen inside the spacious Somerset property that's gone on the market for £1.7million 

The current owners, Caroline and Will Atkinson, quit their jobs and moved to Hill Farm in 2008 to start making their own goat's cheese.

Ms Atkinson had experience working in dairies but her husband was a lawyer in London and Bristol before he became a goat farmer. 

The couple started with 23 goats but built up their herd to 100 females before they decided to sell up.

They make a wrinkly rinded goats' cheese called Stawley with raw milk from their own goats in tiny batches. It was originally based on a French cheese called Charolais.

The farmhouse dates back to the 16th century, when the farm belonged to nearby Cothay Manor, and many period features have been retained.

The house has 3,725 sq ft of accommodation with a drawing room, sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, family room, five bedrooms and two bathrooms.

There is also the pretty Malt House, a converted traditional barn with two bedrooms, and a range of outbuildings including a cider house, the old granary and a linhay.

The land includes 15.46 acres of pasture and 12.74 acres of woodland running down to the River Tone, where the property has single bank fishing rights.

The farm sits between the hamlet of Stawley and village of Appley, which has a pre-school, primary school, village shop/post office and pub.

One of the two bedrooms inside the Grade II* listed farmhouse - the property also comes with 31 acres of land

Another one of the bedrooms inside the farm house that offers the buyer the perfect chance to escape the rat race

The living room inside the £1.7million Somerset farm house that has many period features  

The capacious bathroom inside the spectacular farm house that has gone on the market for £1.7million

Will and Caroline Atkinson, owned Hill Farm for almost a decade but have now decided to sell up

Will Morrison from Knight Frank said: 'Hill Farm is glorious, the area is fantastic. It's fairly rural and hidden away but it's not miles from civilisation.

'It is the whole package if you are looking to move to the country and set up your own business.

'The owners set it up and had a good time doing it but they did it very intensely and now they're looking for a change.'

He added: 'If someone wanted to continue it as a cheese making business they would need to buy some equipment and animals, but the facilities are second to none, they spent a fortune on the buildings.

'It could lend itself to all sorts of home businesses. I've had interest from people who want to do cheese, charcuterie, a vineyard and someone who wanted to use it as an art gallery, there are plenty of good uses, it's very adaptable.

'It's a bit better than the good life, you've got a super walled garden, enough land to do horses, goats, sheep but you can take it to the next stage of business and have a lovely home life.

'It is the ubiquitous lifestyle move.'

Hill Farm, in Somerset, is described as being 'fairly rural and hidden away but not miles from civilisation'

There is also the pretty Malt House, a converted traditional barn with two bedrooms, and a range of outbuildings including a cider house, the old granary and a linhay

The farm sits between the hamlet of Stawley and village of Appley, and comes with 31 acres of land