Home Farm

Home Farm is a model farm complex dating to 1881. It is constructed of red brick with Roman pantile roofs, most of which are hipped and feature tiled ridge cresting and diagonal brick dentils to the eaves. The complex is arranged around a square plan and a central yard, with parallel ranges to the east, a narrow entrance in the southwest corner, and a throughway leading to an open-sided shed and a range to the right.

The east ranges consist of a granary and stables to the front, with an implement shed and a cart shed behind. These are two storeys high and feature a ribbed plinth in the centre of the roof, which formerly supported a cupola. Five slit breathers are visible below the roofline on the first floor, facing the yard. The front elevation has two 18th-century windows and two doors, all under cambered heads. Brick corbels across the ground floor likely once supported a cover over the yard.

The south range, which runs parallel to the road, is a stable block. It is single storey with a hip-roofed centre pavilion, topped by a square, pyramidally-roofed louvred lantern, and finials to the ends of the roof. Double doors are located to the right, flanked by single boarded doors under segmental heads. A further door is situated in the centre pavilion, flanked by casement windows. The left-hand end of this range is now part of the throughway.

The west range is single storey with end finials and three pyramidally-roofed ridge lanterns. It has two planked doors with overlights and cambered heads, a single casement window, and a mullioned and transomed casement to the right. The southern end of this range forms part of the entrance. The west elevation, visible from Stoke Park, includes a plain plinth below three cambered-head casements above, with tiled sills and chamfered surrounds.

The north range is single storey with a plain tiled pentice extension sheltering the pigsties. Paired cambered-head entrances are flanked on each end, with an outer entrance on either side. Sty walls have been partly demolished. The north elevation has three 20th-century cambered-head windows to the centre pavilion, a double door to the left, and an extended range to the left featuring stable doors alternating with stilted-arch windows. This is an unusually complete model farm complex of a relatively late date.