Around the House

On the NW side of the Farm House, there is a driveway and parking for 3 to 4 vehicles; the driveway has a shared access with Chapel Barn which is a rebuild in traditional style of the original cattle barns of Newton Farm.





The frontage of the house faces Newton Old Hall to the North East and has a low maintenance garden area and brick paths to the front door ,all enclosed by a brick wall with original Victorian cast iron railings and gate.






To the South West is the garden. Here a gravelled patio area is separated from the grassed area by a wide cottage garden border.

















Beyond the open grassed area is an extensive wildlife woodland garden dominated by a 100year old Sycamore standing 50feet high; this and other sycamore and ash in the hedgerow, and old cherry trees are covered by a woodland preservation order .













Regular bird visitors to the garden are robins, blackbirds, thrushes, woodpigeons,tits, goldfinches and pheasants ; occasionally a great spotted woodpecker or a treecreeper take lunch on the sycamore.

Nocturnal visitors are foxes and an owl, and during the summer, pipistrelle bats feed regularly on the insects under the trees.