Home Farm

Home Farm, once the ‘model farm’ of the Beamish estate, shows a prosperous managed farm of Victorian times.

Home Farm is one of the original buildings on the Beamish site. The years after the Second World War were not kind to the farmstead and by the 1960s much of the farm had fallen into disrepair.

Beamish began restoration in the late 1970s and in 1983, Home Farm opened to visitors for the first time.

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The heart of the Victorian farmhouse kitchen is an imposing locally built range, a fire crackles merrily in the grate and the farmer’s wife goes about her daily chores. Next door is the Farm Manager’s office where the farm administration is undertaken, alongside a well-stocked pantry.

Around the farmstead are stables, a bull pen, blacksmith’s forge and cart shed, where agricultural vehicles and tools are on display. Mainly local breeds of pigs, cattle, sheep and poultry are bred and reared at Home Farm.