HalshayneWidworthy · Devon

Photographs

Gallery

The valley, the rooms, the garden through the year, and the buildings around the courtyard.

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Film

A flight over the house, the barn ranges and the valley, filmed in winter. Thirty-nine seconds, without sound. Nothing downloads until you press play.

From the air

The farmstead in summer from the air, among trees in a green valley of fields and hedgerows.
The valley in summer.
The house and its long barn ranges from above, with pasture rising behind.
House and barn ranges.
A wide aerial panorama over the valley towards distant hills.
Looking out over the valley.
Aerial view of the house among bare winter trees, with green fields all around.
Winter, from the south-west.
Aerial view showing the house and the neighbouring wing among trees on a clear winter day.
The house and the wing.
A low pass over the roofs, showing tiling, brick chimneys and solar panels.
Low over the roofs.

The house

The south front of the house in stone with brick dressings, bay windows and climbers.
The south front.
The drawing room with its deeply modelled plaster ceiling and carved stone fireplace.
Drawing room.
The library with red-backed fitted shelving and a woodburner.
Library.
A green-painted room with a marble chimneypiece, fitted shelving and a window seat.
Marble chimneypiece and window seat.
The dining room with red walls and a wide inglenook with an iron hood.
The inglenook.
The dining room looking through an arched alcove towards the morning room.
Through to the morning room.
The kitchen with a green Aga in a tiled recess and oak cupboards.
The Aga.
The kitchen looking towards the light of the morning room.
Kitchen, looking east.
Bespoke oak drawers and a dresser along the length of the kitchen.
Joiner-made throughout.
The morning room under a glazed lantern roof with garden doors.
Morning room.
The breakfast room with a slate floor and tall garden windows.
Breakfast room.
The utility room with a Belfast sink, fitted cupboards and a patterned tiled floor.
Utility.
A bedroom with cast-iron fireplace, corner basin and pine boards.
Bedroom.
A blue-painted bedroom with a mullioned window and pine boards.
Bedroom.
A carpeted bedroom with patterned wallpaper and a cast-iron fireplace.
Bedroom.
A bedroom with a leaded window, corner basin and bare pine floorboards.
Bedroom.
A bathroom with a roll-top bath on claw feet and a marble-topped washstand.
Family bathroom.
An en-suite shower room with a corner enclosure and basin.
En-suite shower room.

Barns, cottage and summer house

The West Barn Range in stone and cob with open cart bays, the cottage beyond.
West Barn Range.
Halshayne Cottage, a stone cottage with dormer windows and a tiled roof.
Halshayne Cottage.
The Winter Study with exposed trusses and a staircase to the mezzanine.
The Winter Study.
A woodburning stove beneath the mezzanine in the Winter Study.
Below the gallery.
Inside the summer house: a desk, a patterned tiled floor and leaded windows all round.
Inside the summer house.
The magnolia in white flower over the courtyard, with the barn range behind.
The magnolia over the courtyard.

Garden, pond and season

The pond and its wooded island in high summer, reflected in still water.
The pond and island.
Yellow flag iris flowering at the pond margin under a blue sky.
Flag iris.
The pond with iris in the foreground and rhododendrons flowering beyond.
Rhododendrons across the water.
Wisteria in full flower over an old stone barn wall.
Wisteria on the barn.
A rambling rose covered in pale pink flowers over a wooden five-bar gate.
Rose over the gate.
Pink and white rhododendrons under birch trees.
Rhododendrons.
A shrub rose covered in white blooms in a summer border.
White roses.
A mown glade between mature trees, dappled with sun.
A mown glade.
Broad-leaved damp-loving planting and ferns under the tree canopy.
Damp ground under the canopy.
Fenced pasture with woodland rising steeply behind.
Paddocks below the wood.
Hard frost across the garden and valley on a clear December morning.
Frost, 31 December 2025.
A clump of wild primroses in flower at the foot of a mossy tree trunk.
Primroses at the foot of a tree.
Dog violets flowering among grass and moss on a bank.
Dog violets on the bank.
A pink camellia in full flower against glossy dark green leaves.
Camellia in spring.
A framed colour aerial photograph of the farmstead from 1979.
From the air, summer 1979.

Woodland

Twenty-two acres of native broadleaf woodland across the stream, with rides cut through for access and a timber cabin tucked away inside. In late April the bluebells come.

Bluebells carpeting the floor of the woodland beneath tall trees in fresh spring leaf.
Bluebells under the canopy, late April.
Bluebells spreading through the wood behind a wooden farm gate and post-and-rail fence.
Bluebells beyond the gate.
A timber cabin with a pitched roof, half hidden among bare winter branches in the woodland.
The timber cabin, used as a hide.
The timber cabin seen through the trees from a little further back.
Tucked away in the trees.