Set one mile outside the village of Much Marcle, Bodenham Farm is an eighteenth century grade II listed farmhouse with barns. The farm is situated in five acres of mostly wooded grounds, forming part of the local conservation area. It is set on the lower slopes of Marcle Ridge and is set back from the A449 which runs between the historic market towns of Ross-on-Wye and Ledbury.

  In1997we purchased Bodenham farmhouse and its immediate farm buildings, in all about five acres. This made us only the third family to own it in over two hundred years. The house was completely renovated in the mid-eighties.

Bodenham Farm originally formed part of the Homme House Estate, the ancestral home of the Money-Kyrle family. The farm consisting of some 314 acres was sold at auction on3 July 1922 for what is believed to have been £4,000.

Bodenham Farm house and buildings, being only a few hundred yards from Homme House, are believed to have been the ‘home farm’. The ‘Avenue’, the drive from the house to the old top road still runs through the property and forms part of a Registered Park & Garden that includes the parkland area of Homme House.

The buildings are built with local stone, there being two small quarries nearby. The exterior is now rendered and there is a theory that this took place in Georgian times to match the major renovations that took place to Homme House. At this time the rough stone exterior of Homme House was faced with brick and the windows and roof altered to give a ‘Georgian’ appearance, the house originally being of Elizabethan times. The main façade and windows of Bodenham Farm house could well have received similar treatment at this time, the layout of internal timbers certainly support this theory.

Outside there is a cider mill with granary above and a tullet room connecting the mill to a stone and timber barn in which some sections of wattling can still be seen.

There is access through our grounds to the minor road to the west of the property. All of the upper pasture and woodland is used for grazing our small fold of highland cattle and a fell pony that we use to pull a trap. The lower pasture is home to the free range chickens.