EPW033249 ENGLAND (1930). Barton, Buckland Brewer, 1930

This property is the Barton at Buckland Brewer, North Devon.

View is looking north. Another impressive spot C, well done.

This is a very substantial farm - see large yard to right

The use of stone (as well as possible cob in the house) suggests a west Devon location

Two men, two women.

See also EPW033248.

This has a real Devon feel about it. It neighbour numbers are Luscombe Castle, Dawlish which offers no glue in the immediate vicinity from the study of modern aerial pictures. The mixture of whitewash, stone out buildings and what at least in part appears to be cob under thatch, suggests somewhere on the edge of Dartmoor or north Devon. Clearly the householders had time to get 'on parade' but the workers by the beehives beyond the barns seem less involved with the picture taking. It is clearly a go ahead enterprise with its large wooden chicken houses near the house and some smaller ones out in the fields. The house could be a modernised Devon long house, many of which tend to be orientated with the ridge from east to west the fron facing south... but there are not shadows to tell us this.

The farmhouse with slate roof, barns with thatched roofs and the nineteenth century barn by the sheep and hens are all types I associate with the south west - in particular west Devon and perhaps also east Cornwall. Is west Wales also a candidate?