The small farm comprises of a low house and a small yard separated by a railway line.
The farm buildings include a Wills SS30 barn kit that has been improved with a layer of Polyfilla fine surface render.
Hunting for Frogs
The earth cellar.
Whilst
looking around an old farm we found an odd feature found beside the
farmhouse, it was a small stone hut built into the side of the hill. It
was the entrance to a cold store or 'Erdkeller' for the 18th century
farm, although farmhouse had a basement it also had a separate earth
cellar.
In
terms of room height and shape, it penetrates far less deeply into the
ground, only two steps lead down to the brick entrance. The quarry stone
vault of the cellar is also completely covered with soil and potatoes
are stored here over the winter - dark, cool, but frost-free.
There
were a couple of other similar garden cellars in the village, one was
not built into the side of a hill, instead merely cut into the farm
garden and covered with the displaced soil.
The cottage
The inspiration - Bldg 12 Bad Windsheim
On the layout there is a small cottage for the farmworker, it has a couple of fruit trees, vegetable garden and chicken coop.
Although unfinished, the result will be acceptable
I
remember that in my childhood, chickens (and other domestic birds) were
bustling around in every village. The owners of the poultry seemed to
have no concern for their safety at all. A constant image was the birds
taking carelessly walks along the road running through the village
buildings. And this sometimes ended in a tragic accident under the
wheels of a car
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