At Ley Farm, we started with four buildings and one shell of a former building – all in various conditions. We are gradually converting these into four holiday cottages, a laundry and communal area, with our own home on site as well. So far we’ve converted one end of the shippon into our new home, we’ve opened the farmhouse to rent, and we’ve converted the derelict barn into a new stone barn with the laundry and communal area.
We’ve grown up going on holiday with large family groups and want to provide an opportunity for others to do the same. Our cottages will be available to book individually or as a group.
The Farmhouse
**Now open** By far the largest building, this was built in 1829 as the ‘new’ farmhouse, and is the first of our cottages to be open, sleeping 8 guests.
We’ve freshened it up to make it feel light and airy, replaced the main roof and redesigned the top floor to include a shower room for the bedrooms on that floor, and created a new outdoor patio space.
It comfortably sleeps 8 people, is dog friendly and can be booked on cottages.com.
The Old Barn
A beautiful stone-walled high barn, we will be turning this into a three-bed open plan cottage with high beamed ceilings. We’ve done most of the external work and have started the internal build, but are pausing on further development for the time being.
The Cow Shed
Formerly a cattle shed, the right hand side of this building will become a cute little holiday cottage to sleep two, with an outdoor dining space in the courtyard.
We’ve already done a lot to this building at the same time as converting the left side into our own home. We dug down and lowered the ground level inside, tore down and replaced the front wall, and took off the roof to replace the rafters and clean the tiles.
This cottage now just needs the internal work completing.
The New Barn (communal area)
When we moved in, this was a derelict breeze-block barn. We knocked it down and rebuilt it in the same stone style as the other buildings on site, converting into a laundry and communal games room for our guests, and storage for us. Half of the roof has been turned into a bat loft for our resident bats.
Our builders spent a lot of time on this building and we’re so pleased with the results, they’ve done an incredible job.
The Elizabethan Cottage
This Grade II listed cottage was stabilised by English Heritage in the 1990s and dates back to the Elizabethan period, retaining some amazing original features. We want to restore this as sympathetically as we can, funded by renting out our other buildings on the site.
Ley Farm Cottages 