We were chuffed to learn that Peter Beacham, in his classic series of essays on the architectural heritage of Devon, included a mention & picture he took at Knowle Farm. However, before we could get too puffed up about our splendid fireplaces, oak screen & historic features, we discovered he’d used a picture of our [...]
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Sophisticated pigsties?
Posted in buildings, geese, listed, pigsty on May 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Local materials for local houses – cob, stone, reed.
Posted in buildings, cob, countryside, house, landscape, reed, stone, thatch on May 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Knowle Farm is by no means a picture-book, pretty house. Our estate agent dubbed it ‘handsome’, but I prefer the A-words; authentic, atmospheric, ancient. Another description I like is ‘homely’, although in this case that isn’t a bad thing. Homely, in the sense of unadorned, familiar, a place where one receives kind treatment (OED) [...]
Living on the edge of a volcano.
Posted in buildings, house, volcano on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, yes, but in this case literally too. My friend & neighbour, David Silvester, belongs to Probus, a lunchtime entertainment for the retired. He recently returned from a Geology session reporting he’d discovered ‘interesting facts’ about the neighbourhood. Now Geology doesn’t do much for me so I was gobsmacked to learn we actually live beside [...]
