Model Farm And Farmhouse

The Model Farm and Farmhouse, built in the late 1850s for the Smyth Estate of Long Ashton, is a Grade II listed structure. It features rubble construction with freestone dressings and slate roofs. The complex includes a farmhouse and rear service wings at the south end. The stock yard is surrounded by cart-sheds, a coach-house, stables with workshops to the east, a barn to the west, and segmental shelter sheds to the north, all designed in a plain Gothic style.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with two asymmetrical gabled bays; the west bay is set back and has a 20th-century porch at the front. It has two- and three-light casement windows with chamfered lintels and heads, all under relieving arches. Between the gables, there is a two-stage tower topped with a broached pyramidal roof and overhanging eaves, featuring single light windows.

The east range consists of a single storey with attics in the gables, featuring plank loft doors in pointed surrounds. It has six bays with three doorways and a casement window, all in pointed surrounds, along with cart entry doors on the left. There is a lower single storey workshop attached at the far left, and the south gable end has three arch-headed windows.

The west range includes a barn with five cross-loop windows and a central square-headed entry. To the right is a granary with cart sheds below and upper loft doors concealed behind a later lean-to; the south gable end has casement windows under pointed heads.

The north range contains shelter sheds with nine bays. The outer bays have segmental-headed pedestrian doorways, while there are wide segmental-headed entries to bays two and three, as well as seven and eight. Bays four to six feature 20th-century fenestration and doors.