Home Farm was originally an estate farm, managed by the landowner's bailiff, and used to show tenants good farming practice. Some of the traditional buildings have been rebuilt and others, like the "gin gan" and hemmel added.

Now visitors can discover how the farm was worked in the early years of last century and how the farmer's wife spent her busy day in the large farmhouse kitchen.

Breeds of farm animals, popular in the period, can be seen in the extensive restored farm buildings and in the fields around the Museum.

These include Shorthorn cattle (descendants of the Durham Ox), Saddleback pigs, Teeswater Sheep, and a range of geese, ducks and farmyard poultry.

Home Farm is only open during the summer season