Popular Post Cornish-model-farm Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 (edited) This is the old yard on my main farm, Pengwarthick Barton - a 350 acre beef and cereal farm in West Cornwall. Pengwarthick means "headland of the horned cattle" in the Cornish language and Barton is a Saxon word meaning barley farm. Edited March 3 by Cornish-model-farm 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 3 minutes ago, Cornish-model-farm said: This is the old yard on my main farm, Pengwarthick Barton - a 350 acre beef and cereal farm in West Cornwall. Pengwarthick means "headland of the horned cattle" in the Cornish language and Barton is a Saxon word meaning barley farm. The turret shaped building in the foreground is the old culverhouse where pigeons were once farmed for meat and manure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack390 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Love the sheds, especially the weathering 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 55 minutes ago, Jack390 said: Love the sheds, especially the weathering Thanks very much Jack👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmajor Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 Can we see more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 20 minutes ago, fordmajor said: Can we see more Still working on it at the moment. Will post more in the coming weeks 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmajor Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Look forward to that .Great buildings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 13 hours ago, fordmajor said: Look forward to that .Great buildings. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 Some more pictures of the old yard and farmhouse - further progress, but still not finished! 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 The barn is a Cornish "bank barn" which, as the name suggests, is built into a bank. Consequently, it is a two storey building at the front but just a single storey at the back. The building directly behind the barn is what we call a "round house" in Cornwall, although they are actually polygon shaped. This one is an octagon, although pentagons and hexagons are also common. The building housed the horse "gin" (short for engine) which powered the barn machinery from the early 1800s. The horse or horses, were hitched to a giant wooden wheel, then led around in circles, powering a drive shaft which in turn powered the machinery in the barn. Stationary, barn-based, threshing machines were adopted in Cornwall quite early on because competition from the mines meant there was a lack of manpower to perform traditional threshing with hand-held flails on the barn floor. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cornish-model-farm Posted April 18 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 18 This is Pengwarthick parish church, which is adjacent to the farm. It is dedicated to St Morwenna, a Cornish saint. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 That is fantastic Ian what a set up you have there 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 10 minutes ago, Paul Palmer said: That is fantastic Ian what a set up you have there Thank you so much Paul. Still a lot more to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Will it be older models based Ian? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 18 Author Share Posted April 18 48 minutes ago, Paul Palmer said: Will it be older models based Ian? Based in the present day but plenty of classic Masseys still in use as well as modern Masseys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Palmer Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Nice one Ian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret90 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 That really is most impressive! I like that it represents the buildings near you not just generic machinery barns. How have you done the brick on the house I’ve never found a good way of doing brickwork myself but that looks spot on 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 8 hours ago, Ferret90 said: That really is most impressive! I like that it represents the buildings near you not just generic machinery barns. How have you done the brick on the house I’ve never found a good way of doing brickwork myself but that looks spot on Thank you. Yes, the traditional farm buildings are all based on buildings on farms in my parish, apart from the granary, which is based on one in North Cornwall. The farmhouse was bought second-hand on E-bay and had been used on a Gauge 1 (1/32 scale) railway layout, so I can't take credit for that one, although I did do some sympathetic restoration. The brickwork is a form of plaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Git Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 11 hours ago, Ferret90 said: That really is most impressive! I like that it represents the buildings near you not just generic machinery barns. How have you done the brick on the house I’ve never found a good way of doing brickwork myself but that looks spot on I'm struggling with brickwork as well and a lot to do , I have found a silicon roller which has a brickwork pattern on it , in time I will experiment onto foam board which I have painted brick colour and then put a cement colour on the roller to put the brickwork pattern on , I might try and score in the brick pattern afterwards to give it texture , 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 19 Author Share Posted April 19 3 minutes ago, Idle Git said: I'm struggling with brickwork as well and a lot to do , I have found a silicon roller which has a brickwork pattern on it , in time I will experiment onto foam board which I have painted brick colour and then put a cement colour on the roller to put the brickwork pattern on , I might try and score in the brick pattern afterwards to give it texture , You don't actually see a lot of brick buildings in Cornwall. Farmhouses were mainly local stone or cob (a mixture of earth, straw, horse hair) but a few houses were faced with local brick from the Trelonk brickworks on the River Fal. A farmhouse across the valley from me has a brick frontage and was once the residence of a well-to-do yeoman farmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idle Git Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I'm certainly in a red brick area , and if I want to build what I set out to then I've got many thousands of bricks to lay 🫢 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPN Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 I think Juweela do bricks already stuck to a flexible backing that can be cut to create panels. Take some of the labour out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 The lean-to building next to the barn was originally the "turnip house" where turnips and other root vegetables were stored and fed to livestock after being sliced or pulped by the stationary barn machinery, driven by the horse gin. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
844john Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 I love the layout Ian👌 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish-model-farm Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 Just now, 844john said: I love the layout Ian👌 Thanks very much John👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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