Tony Martin's farmhouse where he killed teen intruder with shotgun on sale for nearly £1.4 million

The former pub landlady who inherited Tony Martin 's £2.5million fortune is open to offers on the infamous farmhouse where the killer shot dead a teenage intruder. Jacqueline Wadsley, the former pub landlady who Martin left his entire estate to, has put 164 acres of farmland that surround the ramshackle building up for sale in two lots, priced at a total of nearly £1.4 million. It includes one with 109.6 acres with a guide price of £918,000 and the other 54.47-acre plot valued at £460,000. The move has been announced just days after it was revealed the 52-year-old and her husband David, 45, had ditched her plans to convert five barns on the land into ten new homes. Mr Wadsley, who has worked the land as a tenant farmer, said: 'It's been a tough decision. At the end of the day we knew Tony better than anybody and we think we're doing right by Tony. This is a great opportunity for someone to come and do the farm justice, which we perhaps won't be able to. "It's good land and it needs to be farmed properly going forward, with someone who has got the capability of doing that really well." On the properties, he said: "If someone was interested in the buildings as well as the farmland, or separately, we would be open to that." Mr Wadsley added: "At some stage in the past, there were several properties down there in the courtyard around Bleak House. We're trying to return that to its former glory - but whether that's through our hands or somebody else's, that's open as part of the sale. I just think once the stigma side of it has passed, it would just be such a great opportunity for someone to live down there, in such lovely settings." The couple had applied to convert five run-down barns on Mr Martin's former land at Bleak House Farm, in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk, into 10 new homes. The house and another derelict cottage on the farm did not feature in the Wadsleys' proposal. Their decision to ditch the plan came after a report from King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council's ecology officer, Claire Wiggs, raising concerns that "no ecological information" had been included in the proposal and calling for "preliminary" assessments on wildlife to be carried out. She wrote: "It is possible that protected species are present on the site including breeding birds, reptiles and roosting bats and could be impacted by the proposals. There are known records of roosting pipistrelle within 1km and badgers within 2km of the site." Ms Wiggs stated that a preliminary ecological appraisal, including a "preliminary roost assessment", was needed to assess the likely presence or absence of protected species. Norfolk County Council's highways development management officer, Richard Smith, described the single carriageway road leading to the farm as "inadequate", as it featured no footway or dedicated cycle links. He also said it had poor visibility and suggested that the ten homes on the site would produce 60 vehicle movements a day which would be to "the detriment of highway safety". And he added the plans should be scaled down to "no more than four homes" to create a "more proportional development". Mrs Wadsley and her husband had asked the council for consent to create houses under permitted development rights, which allow agricultural buildings to be turned into homes without full planning permission. Martin left his entire £2.5million estate to Mrs Wadsley when he died in February last year, aged 80, following a stroke. He had befriended her while drinking in the Hare and Hounds, which she ran in Wisbech, Cambs, following his release from Highpoint Prison, Suffolk, in 2003. He served three years there after shooting dead Fred Barras, 16, and wounding Brendon Fearon, 29, with an unlicensed shotgun as they tried to burgle him in August 1999. Initially convicted of murder, his charge was later downgraded to manslaughter after an appeal, which sparked a national debate about an individual's right to defend their home and their property. The Mirror has previously revealed Martin and Mrs Wadsley were said to have formed a father-daughter-style relationship, with Mrs Wadsley often cooking him Sunday lunches and him doing odd jobs for her family. Earlier this year, probate records revealed his estate in the UK, which included the farm was worth £2,573,973, reduced after payment of liabilities to a net figure of £2,567,795. Leaving his entire estate to her meant Martin's older brother Robin received nothing. But Mr Wadsley explained after the will was revealed that his wife had helped the farmer with medical appointments, accommodation and was "there at all hours" when he needed help in his final years. Martin never went back inside the Bleak House farmhouse after his release from prison, preferring to sleep in a car in an outbuilding. Property agents Cruso & Wilkin describe the potential sale as "an exciting opportunity to acquire 164.08 acres of arable land and woodland". Partner Adam Case said the "good Grade 2 farmland" will appeal to "reasonably close neighbours" who want to expand their operations. He said: "It's actually in pretty good order. Over the last 10-15 years it has been farmed quite well - except Tony had his nuances that he didn't want trees cut back, and he really didn't want the ditches tidied up too much. That has been done now, and a lot of the drainage is sorted out. "There's a little bit more to do but, actually, if you go look at the crops now, they are probably some of the best they've been for some time."