Smallbrook Farm

Nov 18, 2023

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Updated: Aug 10

From British listed buildings: Hall House. Early C16 core, refaced in C17. Timber framed, clad in sandstone rubble with brick patching and dressings, hipped plain tiled roof. Two storeys with corbelled stack to left of centre and stack to left end. Two 3-light, gabled, casement, on-eaves dormers to centre and one 3-light window to either end of first floor. Five windows to ground floor, irregularly spaced, under-cambered heads. Door to left of centre in large, open, gabled porch with arched entrances to front and sides with carved spandrels. Interior:- Some framing visible. Grade II, 29th April, 1986

Smallbrook Farm 1897 Cart Shed, footpath up to Church Cuts.

Maria and Ann Levy, 1897. The sisters are in their milking gear, the hats, we decided, were to protect their hair from being dirtied by the cows, or to stop them getting ringworm. They rose at 5:30am for the milking - the rest of the family rising at 6:00am.

Mrs W Levy of Smallbrook, Uncle Lancelot from Petersfield and their sister, Mrs Woods,

from Hedge Cottage.

Ann Levy on her milk round in Thursley village, 1908. She and her sister, Lucy, ran the farm together. They managed the farm and the lodgers with the help of the carter and the cowman until 1931. The picture was taken outside Wheelers Farm.

Smallbrook Farm, 1897 - the second row of trees are the elms of Highfield Lane which blew down. The second 1897 picture shows the added windows. The Granary, 1897, was pulled down by LadyThomas, you can still see the back wall and the steps.

*1905 wedding of Edward Baker (Ted) of Upper Highfield Farm and Maria Levy of Smallbrook Farm.*

The photographs below are from Betty Weeden's album

In 1994-95, the History of Thursley Society (as it was then named), published Betty Weeden's brief history of the farm 1876 - 1939 in four parts. The first is reproduced below and the rest can be downloaded from the pdf:

Mrs. G. G. R. Boon, of Smallbrook Farm, Thursley, with her 4-year-old chestnut gelding,Cetus, which won 25 first and two reserve championships at shows in the South of England during the past season. Mrs. Boon bought Cetus in Sweden in the spring of last year. It wasthen an unbroken 3-year-old. She schooled and trained the animal herself and rode it to win the fine array of trophies in the picture. Both Major and Mrs. Boon—the former is an Old Farnhamian—are well-known show jumpers.