 Extensive work remains to further restore the late-18th-century farmhouse and barn.An unpublished biography of Richard "Rock" Taylor by Mrs. Elizabeth Bray describes earliest farming conditions, the crude cow-houses, crude shelters for crops, and suitable fruit trees, mostly applicable to the neighboring larger Hallett farm.A cow-house (barn) only sheltered the cows and other stock; the fodder (usually salt hay) was stacked outside.