COTTAGES AND FARMS 



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In the wall returning forward to the left of the kitchen 

 fireplace is the entrance to the cider cellar. Seven hundred 

 gallons have been known to be made in a good apple year. 

 Cider is still made in the district, mostly by cottagers, but 

 a great deal more was made in the old days. 



A small court or wide passage, leading from the farmyard 



The Dairy 



to the garden, is as usual paved with mixed material — brick, 

 stone flag, and flat Bargate stone. Just across this from 

 the dairy window is a granary-like building, whose raised floor 

 is reached by a short flight of the steps of local stone that 

 add so much to the pictorial value of these farm-buildings of 

 the older type. In the former days of the farm's full activity 

 this corner was known as the Iron Room. Here were kept 

 spare shares and coulters for the ploughs, the heavy chains 



