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Home Farm.
This stone
house, on Back Lane but very close to the corner of Main Street, is
a Grade II listed building. It has had farmland attached for most of
its existence, but in recent years it has been sold separate from
its fields and is therefore no longer really a farmhouse. Next to it
is an old stone barn, on which the date 1658
appears.
The mysterious carved head
This may well relate to
the house rather than the
barn. There is a small
carved
stone head in the stonework at the front of the house, at first
floor level. It would be interesting to know where this came
from and why. It certainly looks as old as the house,if not
older.
From
inside, it appears that the front section of the house may have
been added to the rear part. If so, this rear area must be even
older than the front. There are many unanswered questions about
the house's construction, which may well be impossible to solve.
Next to the barn there used to be a timber-framed cottage, shown
in a number of old photographs. The cottage was, in the nineteenth
century and perhaps earlier, owned by the parish and let out
to poorer parishioners at a low rent.
Looking towards Main Street
in about 1910. Home Farm is in the centre.
The
cottage in the foreground was demolished in the 1930s.
Home Farm seen from Main
Street in 1912.
There is, of course, as yet no War Memorial on the opposite
corner.
Home
Farm in the 1930s.
The
roads and pavements have by now been given a more modern appearance.
The new housing
development behind Home Farm
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