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Ley Farm Cottages

Renovating beautiful self-catering holiday cottages in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon

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    • The New Barn, Ley Farm
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    • 01 Walk around Furley, Howley, Marsh and Yarcombe
    • 02 Walk around Stockland
    • 03 Walk around Upottery and Beacon Hill, Yarcombe
    • 04 Walk around Rower Hill, Stockland
    • 05 Beacon Hill, Stockland
    • 06 Yarty Valley to Stockland
    • 07 Churchinford – Bishopswood – Marsh – Yarcombe
    • 08 Pub Hike: Upottery, Churchinford, Bishopswood, Marsh, Yarcombe
    • 09 Walk up Beacon Hill to Dalwood and Stockland
    • 10 Circular walk to The Kings Arms Stockland
    • 11 Low Yarty Valley to Stockland
    • 12 Pound Lane loop
    • 13 Yarcombe loop
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Stud walling 

14th Dec 2025 leyfarmcottages

Work has continued this week in our one bed cottage. All the insulation is now in and our carpenter has started putting in the stud wall between the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. The plumbers

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A mixed week of maintenance, cooking, seaside and building work prep 

30th Nov 2025 leyfarmcottages

Another week and a few more jobs ticked off our to-do list. The external steel stairs up to the Games Room had started to go green

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Guest reviews and a weekend exploring!

27th Apr 2025 leyfarmcottages

We’re very lucky that we’ve had a number of guest reviews come through over the last few weeks. We’ve talked a bit before about the

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An early start to 2025 (‘s job list)

30th Dec 2024 leyfarmcottages

One of our first ‘Big Jobs of 2025’ jobs was to clear the ivy from the wall between our kitchen garden and orchard. Most of

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More fit-out progress

7th Apr 2024 leyfarmcottages

We made more fit-out progress this week. In the garage and laundry rooms the concrete floor was poured, and will be sanded down once it’s

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(Plaster)board and floored

10th Sep 2023 leyfarmcottages

Suddenly it feels like we’ve progressed from having an old cow shed with new walls and ceilings into it becoming a proper building – with

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