Farmstead record COM 037 - Farmstead: Model Farm (Webb's Model Farm)

19th C model farm consisting of a range of brick buildings with slate roofs, including a covered yard and a timber-framed and weatherboarded barn (S1). In addition there are stables, piggeries, a slaughter house, poultry house and an ornate dairy. These buildings have recently been converted for housing (S2).
Recorded in gazetteer of significant Industrial Archaeological sites extracted from a 1980 booklet entitled 'Industrial Archaeology in and around Norfolk' and revised as 'Suffolk IA Sites in 1980' in Suffolk Industrial Archaeological Society Newsletter in 2011 where it is described as: "Webb's Model Farm, prizewinning design of 1865." In 2011 John Jones adds "Model Farm surveyed and recorded by SIAS 19/6/83. Subsequently converted to housing." (S3).

Model Farm (Webb's Model Farm), Combs. 19th century farmstead and farmhouse with converted buildings. Regular courtyard E-shaped plan formed by working agricultural buildings with multiple yards. The farmhouse is set away from the yard. Partial loss (less than 50%) of the traditional farm buildings. Located within a village (S4-9)..

Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.