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had fixed upon it a Nicholson's grist-mill and cake-crusher, 
both of which can now be driven by the portable engine standing 
in a lean-to shed adjoining it on the north side. This shed 
had been erected for the purpose by the tenant, and the whole 
arrangement is well conceived and carried out. 
The buildings contain ample accommodation, and have been 
put in good repair. They are altogether made the most of by 
the tenant ; but they were evidently built in the days when time 
and space were of no consequence. They consist mainly of two 
long parallel lines of continuous roof, about 50 yards apart, 
which must involve great waste of time in walking backwards 
and forwards. The northern of these ranges, about 80 yards 
long, is chiefly arranged as cattle-sheds or byres, the eastern 
end being conveniently occupied, as before stated, by the 
recently erected food-preparing apparatus. 
The southern of these ranges of buildings, about 65 yards 
in length, is occupied by stables, horse-boxes, and cart-sheds. 
The granary above is laid out in partitions, and is kept very 
neat and business-like ; at the west end of this range there is a 
labourer's house and implement-shed and yard. There is also 
an open yard, with a good shed for young cattle in the north- 
west corner of the stackyard ; and near the farmhouse is a 
recently erected range of covered pigsties, well executed. But 
with all these widely scattered buildings there must be great 
inconvenience, and they are not adapted to JVlr. Sherwin's high- 
pressure style of farming. 
Apart from the business point of view, it is a fine rambling 
old place, and might well be the scene of a three-volume novel. 
The quaint roomy old house (dating back to King John, if I 
mistake not), and fine old-fashioned high-walled garden, are 
most harmonious, although not at all the usual style of premises 
on a farm of 229 acres, and of course never built with that 
intention. It is rather a residence and premises where a man 
with two or three thousand a year could live in a style befitting 
his income. 
However, Mr. Sherwin takes it as he finds it, and he also 
makes himself very comfortable ; though in his able hands the 
large garden, kept in beautiful order, is heavily cropped, and, 
instead of being voted an encumbrance and expense, as it 
might be by a less industrious and painstaking tenant, it pays 
its way handsomely, and must at the same time, I am sure, 
afford much pleasure to Mrs. Sherwin and her family. 
I think Mr. Sherwin said that Assheton Smith, the well- 
known sportsman, lived here at one time, and hunted in the 
neighbourhood. It is with the land, however, and the manner 
in which it is cultivated, that we must concern ourselves. 
