Out of all our outbuildings, the former threshing barn is in the best condition – we think mainly because it was used as a workshop by the previous owner (a highly-skilled carpenter). It dates
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Our shippon
The first building you come to within our site is our shippon, with a lovely red clay-tiled roof. Formerly an open-fronted cow milking shed and dating back almost 200 years (a similar time to the
Our Elizabethan Cottage…. AKA ‘the money pit’
We realised this week that we’ve not really talked about the buildings we have on site that we’re hoping to restore. So we thought we’d start with
A weekend in the kitchen garden
One of the things that really sold Ley Farm to us was the kitchen garden – finally proper space to grow vegetables instead of squeezing
The first step towards restorations
The last seven days seem to have flown by! We’ve met both our neighbours as well as the farmers down the road – and can safely
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