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I found something useful on the internet


pirouets

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One of the pieces about building Hemerdon Bank has been the farm buildings above the layout and where can I get information about them other than via Google Maps or Bing. The image below is from a screen capture off Bing

 

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So I started hunting round for other images of Hemerdon. I found various images and pages, but nothing that really helped until I came across a link with a picture of the line and some text that told me the farm is called Parkside farm.

 

So a new google search was sent of into the wonders of the web. The first gave me this page which had a front on view of the farm house. But then, lying there at the end of the Google rainbow, was an architects website with some information that told me back in 2007 various changes and improvement had been made. Part of the treasure turned out to be the planning portal for South Hams, upon which were 4 planning applications, 2 of which contained the same PDF file which was full of Sweet Pictures of the farm site.

 

All the content is copyrighted so if you want to take a look, you will need to follow the links.

 

This then leaves me with the simple question of whether my fingers can deliver on this. Only time will tell.

 

At some point I'll get round to posting some pictures of my progress.

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That's a nice farm... would you call it a typical layout for that sort of age?

If so, I may just have to utilize your links :)

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That's a nice farm... would you call it a typical layout for that sort of age?

If so, I may just have to utilize your links :)

 

It's reasonably typical in layout, with the house looking out into the yard with various barns surrounding the other sides of the yard. This a very similar layout to the farm that my family owned for several centuries. The farm site that I currently live on had a row of barns opposite the house which had a large barn attached, but there is also another barn beside the farm almost turning the site into a T shape.

Looking at the house in the planning application the windows going up into the roof line are an interesting feature, but it could have just as well been that the 2nd story windows fully below the windows.

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Actually I have to take it back in time. The 1st house in the lower half of the picture will become a barn as it was in the 70s and the barn on the right now has a modern extension. I am still hunting for a few pictures of that.

 

The main house in the top half does not need to many changes. Just the extension on the back left side which gets shrunk. I may be able to get hold of the original 70s picture as I have asked the architects if they have a copy I could use.

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