Agricultural

AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS

This page has photographs and information about the main farmhouses and barns in Trunch:- White House, Ivy House, Miller's Farm, Old Manor House/Hall Farm, Brick Kiln Farm, Park Farm, Trunch Hall, Grove Farm, Tee Farm, Manor Farm, Dairy Farm, and the Tithe and other Barns.

WHITE HOUSE Mundesley Road

This is a listed, 18th. Century house with black pantiles and sash windows, which was owned by the Primrose family from at least 1839. From 1861 until 1882 it was the home of William Primrose (born 1796) the major village landowner and employer. He was followed by his son Henry and then by Timothy Blanchflower in 1901 and Arthur May in 1911 up to 1974.

White House Farm

White House Farm 2014

White House in 1953

The picture on the left shows the White House in 1953, with Arthur May's car in the foreground

IVY FARMHOUSE Mundesley Road

This is a late Georgian, listed house with two Tuscan style porches. The village trail leaflet suggests that some of the patterned work of brick and knapped flint is older and may be a fragment of the lost Guild House. (In 1400 the Guild House was leased by Robert Hay at 6s 8d per year)

In 1826 the house was owned by Robert Long and it was sold in that year after he died. Click here for the auction notice. The 1839 Tithe Map shows Sir Jacob Preston as the owner and William Long as the tenant. In 1841 William Long aged 70 was a farmer in the Mundesley Road and in 1851 James Riches a maltster was living at Long's Farm on the Mundesley Road.

It seems likely that from 1861 until at least 1883 this was the home of William Primrose junior (born 1822), the son of the occupier of the White House - above. In the 1891 census his son Walter (born 1867) was living here but in August 1891 Mr G Davies was reported to be living here. From 1901 until at least 1929, Henry May was the occupant.

Ivy Farmhouse

Ivy Farmhouse 2014

MILLERS FARM Mundesley Road

A Seventeenth Century complex of farmhouse and barns named after John Miller who lived there from 1835-62, and his son who followed on in 1865. The owner of the farm in 1839 was Ann Dixon. (She was the daughter of Joseph Roberts who I believe owned the farm in earlier times). In 1881 Robert Thirtle possibly lived there, Henry May did in 1891 but it is not clear in the 1901 census who lived there then. Fred Buck was there in 1911 but he is listed as a worker not a farmer. Later in the 20th. Century the Larke family farmed and lived there and in the 1980s they delivered milk in the village.

Miller's Farm 2014

OLD MANOR HOUSE/HALL FARM Mundesley Road

This is thought to be a late 16th. Century or early 17th. Century Manor House. It is thatched with octagonal chimneys and original brick mullioned windows. It is a little confusing as there is now another Manor Farm and another Manor House in Trunch. So this is now referred to as Hall Farm. In 1839 the farm belonged to Jonas Walpole and he leased it to farmer Matthew Clarke who lived and farmed here until 1871 and after his death his widow ran the farm. Robert Buck then married Matthew's daughter Sarah and was the farmer from 1891 until 1922 and from 1905 until at least 1915 the freehold of the farm was owned by Ezra Cornish. Walter Gibbons was the farmer in 1929 and Malcolm Larke lived there in 1977. The farm was sold in 2015.

Old Manor/Hall Farm 2014

Old Manor/Hall Farm 2019

All change in 2019. A new thatched roof and renovations underway.

BRICK KILN FARM Mundesley Road

This is a 17th. Century listed farmhouse. In 1839 the Tithe map shows that the farm was owned by John Amis and worked by John Hust. The census shows clearly that the farmer who lived here from 1881 to 1911 was George Ducker but the earlier years are uncertain - possibly Richard Hust in 1841 and 51, and Charles Greenacre in 1861. In 1919 George Hicks bought the farm from the Buxton Estate. He paid £30 an acre for the 96 acre farm.

Brick Kiln Farm 2014

Old photo of Brick Kiln Farm

Brick Kiln Farm January 1933

PARK FARM Knapton Road

Set well back from the road is a farmhouse and a barn - now converted to accomodation. The buildings do not appear on the Tithe map of around 1839 but are on the OS map drawn between 1879 and 1886. Charles Hust farmed on Knapton Road in 1851 and Richard Hust in 1861, William Hardingham in 1871 and 1881, William Blyth in 1891 and 1901 and William Bullimore in 1911 and up to at least 1929.

TRUNCH HALL Bradfield Road

A late 16th. Century, listed house with possible earlier parts. Goodrich (1939) says that Marmaduke Ward (the Parish Clerk) lived here before selling it to Thomas Bidwell who lived here in 1851 followed by his son Thomas from at least 1861 until after 1891. The Tithe map of 1839 however shows Thomas Bidwell as the owner-occupier but he is not on the 1841 census. Ellen Forrest was here in the 1901 census but she was "living by her own means" so not farming. She was still living here with her daughters in 1908. Charles Briggs was living here in 1911 and 1912, Captain Mcloed in 1922 and Claude Plummer-Jones in 1928/9. The Plummer-Jones' had moved from Remuera in New Zealand. During World War Two the Hall was occupied by Lt. Col. Alexander van Stranbenzee and in the 1960s I think the farm was owned by Bob Gibbons.

Trunch Hall, Bradfield Road, 2014

2017 Renovation

Grove/Warren Farm 2014

GROVE or WARREN FARM is on the South West edge of the parish at the end of Brewery (Warren) Road. In 1839 it was owned by Thomas Greg and it had a variety of tenants in the 19th Century. John Whitwood in 1841, William Burred in 1851, John Jordan in 1861, Edward Youngman in 1871 and William Cooper in 1891. Walter Paul was the farmer from 1901 until at least 1929 - calling it Jubilee Farm.

TEE FARM On edge of Trunch near Mundesley

Robert Margetson lived and farmed here in 1841 and Cornelius Bugden in 1851 & 1861; then Rhoda Bugden, who was Cornelius' widow, took over. James Thompson seems to have had a few acres in this area and in 1901 and 1911 Robert Puncher was living here but his occupation was "carter" rather than farmer. However in his book Arthur Amis does say that he had dairy cows and farmed the land with his sons. In 1922 and 1929 Charles Mileham was the farmer at the Tees.

Tee Farm - recent thatched extension

Tee Farm barn 2014

MANOR FARM Brewery Road
The farm buildings and cottages that were on this site in 1839 were owned by William Primrose. This farm house appears in the 1901 and 1911 census returns with Frederick Powell living there. The farm house is now called Manor House. In his book Arthur Amis says that William Golding rented this farm until 1921 when the Buxton Estate sold it to Robert Fox who farmed here until about 1930. I also saw on the Internet that Alexander Clark and his wife Nancy Young Clark from Manor Farm were passengers on the Oriana that sailed from Southampton to Australia in 1960. Alexander stated that he was a farmer and had been born in Scotland in 1892.

Manor House

OTHER FARMS

Other Trunch farms and farmers are mentioned in the censuses. For example Robert Wortley had 112 acres in 1841 and 1851 and he lived in Chapel Road. In addition several small farmers with a few acres are often mentioned as living on the Hill in the centre of the village. Today Dairy Farm can still be seen there and in the early 20th. Century John Riches and his wife Anna lived there and sold milk and butter from the cows that they kept on a few acres.

Dairy Farm

Gorrell Hill Farmhouse 2014

Gorrell Hill Farm - now called Farmhouse Cottage. Arthur Greenhill lived here in the early 20th. Century and named it Dudley Farm after his son. In 1936 he sold it to Richard Hayward and the land was farmed by his son Duncan until 1945 when it was sold to Mr. Plaister for £7,500. Later on Wally Hicks bought it and changed the name to Gorrell Hill Farm after one of the nearby fields.