A PLAN to convert prominent historic farm buildings into six holiday lets is back on track.

Mr and Mrs B Watkins of Cobnash Farm, located between Kingsland and Leominster are seeking listed building consent from Herefordshire Council for the resurrected plan.

Under it, the main three- and four-storey Mill building is to be split into three two- and three-bedroom holiday apartments, with the ground floor serving as recreational space.

Built and later adapted in the 19th century, the Grade II listed, water-powered corn mill later served as a cider mill. Its mill wheel would remain ‘as a feature’.

An old though unlisted Wain (cart) House behind it, will need partial rebuilding as a two-storey, three-bedroom house, while a timber-framed building further back will become two two-bedroom properties.

Two modern steel-framed barns to the front and rear of the main mill building would be removed, while the existing roadside Mill House would remain a rented residential property.

The application updates a previous bid for listed building consent which was granted in 2020 but has since lapsed.

A concurrent planning application for the work has yet to be decided on as it was held up by the “moratorium” preventing any new development in the area which could not demonstrate nutrient neutrality with regard to local water courses.

This is now being overcome by via Herefordshire Council’s ‘phosphate credits’ scheme.

Comments on the listed building consent application number 242821can be made until January 14.