Southrop Manor Farm House was built in 1623, and its Tithe Barn would have been built around this time too.

Since the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 (Southrop Manor being one until then), the English population had lived quietly for fifty years.

There is much evidence of medieval farming around Southrop. Farming techniques then involved piling up the soil in long rows known as ‘ridge and furrow’.

In 43AD the Emperor Claudius's troops invaded Britain and the conquest had properly begun.

Every year we plan very carefully what we are going to grow in the kitchen garden.

One of our most magnificent spaces is our Grade 2 listed Tithe Barn. Dating back to the early 17th century, its purpose was to serve the farm, for flail threshing and the storing of grain or pulse crops and would have been filled right up to the eaves, or even higher.