We hope you will join us this year for another season of world class music in the informal atmosphere of the Barn, Farm and garden.
When it was built, around 1780, the Barn was thatched, constructed out of local stone with elm beams, probably cut from trees on the farm or nearby. The size of the Barn was largely determined by the length of the beams and the size of the trees from which they were hewn.
The Barn was the epicentre of life on the farm, providing storage for corn and hay as well as a threshing floor for wheat, oats and barley after harvest. Fodder was essential not only for cattle and sheep over winter but for the six working horses hard at work on the land.
With mechanisation and the steady increase in the size of machinery and equipment, larger yields, fewer horses and more efficient storage, the Barn slowly but steadily lost it’s prime position to become almost redundant.
In 1992, the Barn was emptied for a family celebration and it’s new potential discovered – a wonderful space for music with surprisingly outstanding acoustic.
The 2010 Concert Season is the Barn’s 18th season, it is coming of age for a second time. Around eight concerts over the summer are performed by musicians from all over the world. In the past these have included Melvyn Tan, Henschel Quartet, St Petersberg Quartet, George Melly, the Wihan Quartet, Terry Lightfoot, Badke Quartet.
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