Bricks and antiquities

Brick by brick – dotted all over the barn and the buildings are single bricks with names on – they have been sourced from reclamation yards from as far away as Barnsley.

Janet put a call out for random bricks after she spotted one or two bricks with names on when they discovered a hidden fireplace in the farmhouse. “I thought it would be a nice idea to incorporate them into the walls of the patio, so I put out a call on social media and people started turning up with them. They’ve worked well and we thought it could be quite a good game for kids at weddings to go brick spotting. I think Whitehaven appears on quite a few of them.”

Inside the barn you will also see a statue incorporated into the wall of Robert Burns the iconic national poet of Scotland. . He has an uncanny resemblance to Johnny Addison! – think this is actually Robbie Burns!

Janet spent a lot of time collecting unused items from the farm – now labelled antiquities, these include old stable partitions which are now part of the quirky bar, and old byre water bowls once used for cattle that are now part of the patio wall feature.

Old crusher from the granary has been removed and taken away to be recycled – it is being made into a feature metal table.   

The Bar: old stable wood to be used to create a creative back to the bar, being designed by Tim Watson “Elementary” Bar owner and a good friend of Johnny.

Bricks for the tables - we used the Whitehaven bricks on our styled wedding shoot -showing how much you really can reclaim and repurpose!