Wramplingham
Dakin Estates developed two detached barns just outside the town of Wyndmondham in Norfolk a few miles south of Norwich.
The barns, accessed by a private farm road, enjoy a beautiful, private secluded location. However, despite this, the schools, shops and facilities of Wyndmondham, a Waitrose superstore, the main All and a railway station are all within a few minutes drive. The City of Norwich and its international airport are also within easy reach. The final barn will launch early in 2009 and full marketing details will be published on this site as soon as they are available.
One Wramplingham villager taking an interest in the current restoration project is Arthur Willamott whose family have a long standing association with Boundary Farm. Arthur’s grandfather, Charlie Willamott, lived at Boundary Farm from the early 1900s right up until the 1950s in his capacity of Manager of both Boundary and Church Farm. Every morning at 6am Charlie would leave Boundary Farm by pony and trap to check on Church Farm and so punctual was he that, it was said, those along the way could set their clocks by him.
Each morning, also, Charlie’s children including Arthur’s father, (born at Boundary Farm in 1904), had to walk to the school at Melton with Arthur’s father, being too small to manage the distance, being pushed there in an old pram by his siblings. In later years the pony and trap was replaced by a Morris 8 motorcar in which Grandfather Willamott, a self taught motorist, drove around the countryside with cheery disregard of any notion of passing a driving test or obtaining a licence.
Eventually, Arthur and his father ended up farming Boundary Farm in tandem with nearby Mill Farm and Arthur and his wife moved into Boundary Farmhouse in 1957 with the property having no bathroom, an outside toilet, water from a well and being lit by gas lamps. Electricity was not installed until 1963 and yet Arthur and his wife remember it as a very happy time in a beautiful setting.
In 1968, with the death of Arthur Willamott’s father the tenancy and agricultural activity of Boundary Farm ended and the buildings entered a long period of decline. Arthur and his wife had to move to another farm in the village itself where they still live to this day but both treasure fond memories of Boundary Farm with ducks on the duckpond, pigs and chickens in the orchard, cattle at pasture, working farmhorses and a way of rural life which has now passed into history.
They are looking forward to revisiting Boundary Farm to see the transformation of its historic former farm buildings with the current restoration scheme.
The Wramplingham development featured in the local papers.
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