AN historic room with a view could be yours, as a range of rural cottages and farmland overlooking Tintern Abbey go on the market for a cool £1.75m.

The offer includes a pair of semi-detached cottages with traditional outbuildings, two rundown cottages in need of refurbishment, more than 220 acres of famland and woodland, a disused stone quarry and fishing rights on the Riiver Wye.

And you needn’t worry about noisy neighbours chanting their prayers at day break – the monks departed the abbey in 1536 as part of Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries.

The unique Tintern Estate property sale will provide both history on the doorstep in the form of the 887-year-old abbey, and the beautiful riverside setting of the Wye Valley.

Now owned by Welsh historic monuments group Cadw, the abbey and its grounds were home to the Cistercian monks for 405 years from 1131 until the Reformation, and today it is renowned worldwide as one of the the best preserved medieval abbeys in the UK.

Knight Frank are handling the sale of the estate, either as a complete bundle or in separate lots.

Lot one is Abbey Cottages, a pair of semi-detached homes with sizeable outbuildings situated in the shadow of the historic Abbey, in 8.6 acres of pastureland beside the River Wye.

The second lot is 63 acres of farm and woodland, while the third lot, once known as Livox Farm, includes former farm buildings set in 160 acres of high grade arable land and a disused stone quarry.

Lot four is two semi-detached cottages in need of renovation set in 0.31 acres, while lot five is fishing rights on the Wye, traditionally one of the country’s top salmon rivers.

While the abbey has lost its roof and is a cherished ruin, some of the buildings offered in the sale are also in need of restoration, while some of the outbuildings could be transformed into homes if planning permission is obtained.

Meanwhile, there are hopes that work could start soon on another dilapidated building overlooking the historic site, the former Abbey Hotel, to turn the building and grounds into 11 new homes.

The building has been closed and boarded up for five years, despite planning approval for its conversion having been granted by Monmouthshire Council in November 2013.

The developer has now submitted a request for amendments to be made to the original conditions, with a view to starting the work.

The lands of the abbey were originally divided into agricultural units or granges, worked on by lay brothers, until September 3, 1536, when Abbot Wyche was forced to surrender Tintern Abbey to King Henry VIII’s officials, ending a way of life which had lasted for four centuries.

A major two-year programme of conservation work has recently been completed on the 13th-century west front – regarded as one of the great glories of Gothic architecture in Britain – while the statue of Our Lady of Tintern is now installed in the south aisle of the abbey.

Visitors can gain an insight into abbey life when Brother Thomas, the cellarer, will lift the lid on what went on there in the 14th century on Saturday, July 21. He will reveal the daily life of the monks, including their spiritual duties, hygiene and eating habits, as well as the numerous religious services they had to attend.

For further information about the Tintern Estate property and land sale, call Knight Frank on 01285 882007 or go to http://www.knightfrank.co.uk