The smallholding

A small whitewashed estate of two wings with a tiled roof. The buildings are a copy of the smallholding on Løvenborg Allé 2, Løvenborg Estate west of Holbæk, established in 1927. It is a "standard house" since the National Association of Better Building up during the twenties and thirties produced and published drawings for the State’s Land Law Committee for the purpose of parcelling out state smallholdings.

The farmhouse

The farmhouse contains kitchen, living room, best room, bedroom, hall, larder and scullery with a copper as well as access to the attic, where grain was originally kept. The size of the rooms and the placement of doors and windows were very similar on the majority of the state smallholdings. As such there is no particular difference in the furnishing. The conditions do not allow much variation so many people will be familiar with the furnishing. Yet the best room gets light from a kerosene lamp, like in Løvenborg, while there are electrical lights in other rooms of the farmhouse. The bedroom is an experience in itself with old fustian sheets and beautiful embroidered covers and a hot-water bottle made of zinc. Our guests are welcome to look inside closets and drawers. The potted plants are historical and many people will be pleased to revisit some of the typical things in our parents’, in-laws’ or grandparents’ country houses. There will almost always be fire in the kitchen stove and hot water from the water pump in the yard in the stove’s water heater. There is always a scent of Richs coffee from "Madam Blue", who is ready to offer guests a much-needed cup of coffee. There is lemonade to our smallest guests. Furthermore, around suppertime there will often be a scent of food from the Old Danish country kitchen. Visitors are welcome to taste. The stable wing consists of a threshing floor, a chaff cutting room, pigsties and stalls for cows and horses. Please note the smell of fodder, animal and dung – and don’t forget the sounds.In the farmyard there are rabbit cages, henhouses with a variety of poultry as well as pigeon houses. There are goats in fences close to the farm and a dunghill behind the stables. The farm has an ornamental garden, a vegetable garden and about eleven acres of farm for grazing, grain and root crops of old sorts, which are being cultivated with horse carriages.