Farm Buildings

Our main farm yard is made up of stone and red brick barns, in a courtyard style, dating from around 1886 when Mark Rolle owned the farm. They are slate roofed and very traditional. We use these barns as storage/workshops, it's where we rear our calves in the summer and where animals will be housed in the winter. One of the barns was also our milking parlour and grain store, but now have other uses.

We then have some more modern buildings, such as the cows Cubical building and the hay shed. These provide the housing for the cows, young stock, store cattle in the winter and also for fodder keep, for hay and straw. They are made differently, from timber and galvanised sheets. We also have a small machinery shed, built in the same way.

At the front of the farm is the original Pigs Court building, where sows and piglets would have been reared. It has 5 arched wooden doors at the front and its own enclosed, stonewall courtyard, with cobbled floor.

The farmhouse dates back much earlier with references found in the Doomsday Book of 1086ad.