More information : Enholmes Farm built 1849 is one of the most outstanding farmsteads of the 'High Farming' period which characterised the period from late 1840s to 1870s. It was built on the latest scientific principles and designed as a factory to fatten cattle and increase output from the land with the resulting fertiliser. The farm is laid out on a grid plan, with four principle ranges of buildings enclosing a set of cattle sheds to the centre.
Additional further buildings comprise - manure store, stable block, stock yards and shelter sheds, granary, barn and feed preparation area (which retained evidence of a transmission system, engine and boiler). Underground water tank for boiler located to east of the barn. Cartshed with granary and incorporated a smithy, and a further building a laundry .
The house, probably used by the farm manager has been demolished.
All the buildings are in brick and date from 1849, except 2 outbuildings which survive from the earlier farmstead. The Model Farm was built by Marshall (William (1796-1872), who bought the manor of Patrington in 1846). (1)
Enholmes farm, Patringham, built by William Marshall, flax spinner of Leeds in 1849. This huge complex with five rows of cattle boxes shows transitional stage between covered yards which kept cattle loose. This arrangement with tramways connecting the feedstores with the stores is very similar to teh buildings illustrated in 1848 and built by Prince's Hall on Dartmoor. (2)
1997 planning permission for conversion to dwellings, in 2012 properties were for sale . (3) |