Part of Tony Martin's farm on sale for £1.378m

Farmland that belonged to Tony Martin who shot dead a teenage burglar at his home in 1999 has been put up for sale for £1.378m.

The move comes days after plans to turn five barns on the site into 10 homes were withdrawn.

The site is home to Bleak House near Emneth, Norfolk, which hit the national headlines 27 years ago when Martin shot two burglars, killing one of them.

After his death last year, the 80-year-old farmer left the property, which was part of his estate that totalled more than £2.5m, to friend and former pub landlady Jacqueline Wadsley and her husband David.

Land Agent Cruso & Wilkin is selling the farmland for the couple as two separate plots – one for £918,000 and the other for £460,000.

Cruso & Wilkin partner Adam Case said the pair are also open to offers on the buildings, including Bleak House, but they are not currently being advertised for sale.

In March this year, the Wadsleys requested to change the use of the barns from agricultural to residential.

But the application to King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council faced objections.

The council's ecology officer raised concerns that no ecological assessment had been carried out.

She stated: "It is possible that protected species are present on site including breeding birds, reptiles and roosting bats and could be impacted by the proposals."

Norfolk County Council's highways team said the number of proposed dwellings was too high for the local infrastructure.

The team added the single track access road would take an estimated 60 car movements a day if the development was allowed at its current size.

The plans have since been withdrawn.

The barns are on the same site as Bleak House, which was were Martin fatally shot 16-year-old Fred Barras in August 1999.

Barras had broken into the semi-derelict home on the Norfolk-Cambridgeshire border with accomplice Brendon Fearon, 29.

They had travelled from Newark, Nottinghamshire, that evening to raid the property at Emneth Hungate, where Martin stored antiques.

The farmer heard them, came down from an upstairs bedroom and opened fire with a pump-action shotgun.

Barras died at the farm while Fearon was treated in hospital for his injuries.

Martin was convicted of murder and jailed for life, but the charge was later downgraded to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility and he was released in 2003.

Representatives of Jacqueline and David Wadley, who inherited Martin's estate, have been contacted for comment.

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