I would like to introduce you to a new member of the Ling’s Meadow family. Last week we had the slightly scary task of moving a 2 tonne shepherd’s hut along the winding Norfolk roads to its final resting place at the farm (thank you MAP Recovery services). With our fondness for reusing and my love of historic objects (in a previous life I worked with Museum collections) it seemed like the perfect addition to the meadow when we spotted it for sale.
It has been lovingly restored by an enthusiast not too far down the road from us and was originally found in Ellingham in Norfolk. Only the frame had survived so it has been quite a long job. Huts like this were used by road mending teams as accommodation, or by crews travelling around local farms with steam traction engines and steam ploughs in the late 19th century.