Coombe gardens, courtyard and gatehouse
Front garden
To enter the house walk past the ancient cider barn and then under the Gatehouse arch where Tim and Angela and Sofia and Finbar live (the owners). You'll immediately find yourself in the secluded front garden with mown lawn, children's swing and a gorgeous variety of flowers. and shrubs. Along with the rear courtyard a good area for dogs to roam.
Rear courtyard
The working fireplace and wooden furniture in the rear courtyard
Originally there was another house behind the main farmhouse - a 'bothy' or servants' quarters. That's long gone now but what remains is a beautiful cobbled courtyard with massive old functioning stone chimney, bread oven, fig and grape bushes, magnolias, camelias. Perfectly equipped for morning breakfasts or evening bbq's - a large outdoor wooden table and chair set are always out there as well as a family sized bbq.
Main garden
Stroll out through the back courtyard door and enter a paradise of bushes, shrubs and trees with glorious views down the valley and across to our willow patch, thence into fields and the woodlands. Dawn and dusk, or dimsey as westcountry folks say, you may spy a fox making his way out across the field, or deer, or buzzards wheeling overhead. Summer night-times you're sure to hear owls in the woods, or see bats against the sky.
Flowers at Coombe farm
Flowers at Coombe farm
Flowers at Coombe farm
Flowers at Coombe farm
Flowers in our gardens
Vegetable garden
We grow organic vegetables in the garden - sometimes we have availability depending on season and demand. The veg garden also unobtrusively houses our solar tubes and PV solar electricity plant.
Solar hot water is generated here helping to reduce our carbon footprint.
At Coombe we grow a lot of organic vegetables in our gardens - all organic of course
Some of the summer vegetable crops at Coombe farm doing really well.
The Goyle
This is a magical little valley leading up away from the farm and into the woodlands. There's exotic camellias and magnolia, bluebells, primroses, towering douglas fir trees, swamp cypruses, gonnera bushes, hostas, rare orchids; a pond and bridges across a little stream that gurgles down the valley. On a late summer's evening if you move quietly you might even see badgers in the valley.
This garden path leads to the woodland and excellent walks
Bridleways and footpaths
In partnership with Countryside Stewardship we have opened up over eight kilometres of footpaths and bridleways through the woods and fields. They are signposted with arrows and maps. Enjoy!
Many paths lead through Coombe woodlands.
