Coxes Farm

(Work In Progress: output at 18/02/2025 18:41:46)

• Introduction: Coxes Farm – where we have been living since early 2012 – is a Grade 2 listed building of slightly uncertain age. Historic England: Coxes Farmhouse - Official list entry states that it is 16th century with 17th century additions at the front. I’m not sure how this is known. There’s a board (modern – it claims the house is 500 years old – though not new) by the lychgate that claims 1500, and I’ve heard of 1460 as a possibility. In any case, it has been knocked about a bit over the centuries.
• Photos: I have spent a lot of effort creating timeline software to display photos easily in bulk. Even more effort was spent collating and annotating the sets of photos related to the developments and repairs to our house and gardens. These are accessible from the Blog¹, but for ease of access, see the 5 links below:-
  1. Page 1²: Shows a timeline for the repairs undertaken on the house since a crack at the front was discovered in December 2017. Phase 3 – rebuilding to the right-hand side – needs to be added.
  2. Page 2³: Shows earlier photos the house, including those of the survey and immediately post-purchase repairs and developments. I've yet to sort these into a sensible order.
  3. Page 3⁴: Shows photos of the Garden - including early ruinations and landscaping - together with other random photos.
  4. Page 4⁵: Is a page of photos that uses a different technology to build it. Unlike the other pages it's not intended to be a timeline but will select features to highlight and compare.
• Page 5⁶: Discusses some of the issues that can arise with owning a listed building, with a case study at the end (work yet to be completed!) dealing with my own property.
• The photos displayed above are there simply to make the page less dull.
  1. The left-hand one was borrowed from a – now defunct, I believe – Historic England website. It was taken in 1999 (though a poor variant has been imported into the new site here: Historic England Photos: Coxes Farmhouse).
  2. There now seems to be a new Historic England website (Historic England) and the page for Coxes Farmhouse (as the register entry calls Coxes Farm) is here: Historic England: Coxes Farmhouse - Listing overview. It doesn’t do the house justice₇, as the lychgate blots out the house. However, Historic England: Coxes Farmhouse - Comments and Photos has a much better photo of the front of the house. I’ve placed this in the centre.
  3. On the right is a photo taken in February 2012 around the time we exchanged contracts. The weather was bitter and the pond frozen over.