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Parts of the old farmhouse date back getting on for 300 years, the gable end front is part of the original house being half timbered.
Judging by the pitch of the roof it would have been thatched
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| This was the modern double sided cowshed that you could only dream of back in the 1950's when this was built, it tied up 26 cows, see the same shed on the right of the top picture |
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| The store shed and loft where feed for the cattle was stored, dairy corn and other straight feeds like beet pulp flaked maize and barley for rolling went, and below was where the mangle's hay bales and straw for bedding was put through each day from the hay barn |
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A general view through the farm gate looking between the house and cow shed, at the far end of the yard we had erected a new cubicle shed to hold 64 cows, which makes this picture 1970.
On the bank in the distance is the wheelwrights workshop, and the small holding that his brother ran
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An early aerial picture 1970, farm house on the left, with new cubicle shed top left, the cow shed that held 26 tied up is just to the right of the house and just above that roof you can see the new milking parlour where we milked 64 cows.
The hay baler is on the yard in the centre and on the right you can just see the old warn out Martin Markham flail forage harvester with its blue spout
Bottom right in the picture is the needles of the top of the church tower, and the new house was built on the site of the old thatched house, see picture below
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| Another 1940's picture of the back of the farmyard taken from the fields, on the right is the new white roof the the double cowshed, the old thatched cottages in the centre below the tower of St Chads church |
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| An older picture still of the thatches two cottages probably 1930 , the south side of the church covered in ivy, there is more about these cottages in the storey "Green Farm Cottages" written and put on a few weeks ago. |
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