Farleys Farmhouse

To my great shame, I have never previously been to Farleys Farmhouse, the house which Roland Penrose and Lee Miller bought in 1949 (they married in 1947) and where they entertained so many friends and artists, including Picasso, who were expected to help prepare the food, including peeling potatoes, round the kitchen table. I strongly recommend it: quite small-scale; very atmospheric; completely preserved as it was, with Penrose’s paintings and exhibitions of Lee Miller’s photographs in a barn in the car park:-

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