This is a typical autumn or winter farmyard scene of corn (wheat or barley) threshing.

A traction engine is providing the power for the threshing machine or drum and also for the elevator lifting straw to the stack in the background.

No fewer than 13 men can be seen in the labour-intensive operation of converting sheaves into grain, straw and chaff.

In the foreground is a horse-drawn flat roller.

Undated photograph

The south elevation of the farmhouse. On the left side is the dining room window.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The house incorporates remnants of the former monastic grange associated with Barlings Abbey.

The stairs in this photo lead to the upper floor in the corner of the present vaulted dining room.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011