First pictures give glimpse into new play barn at Temple Newsam

First pictures give visitors to Temple Newsam’s new play barn at home farm ahead of its opening on September 20.

- by Laura Collins

The barn now hosts two play areas, one suitable for up to 12-year-olds and a second one built for toddlers. Both take inspiration from the farm and the park, bringing the great outdoors inside.

Older children are invited to fully immerse themselves in the main room with big slides, puzzles to solve and castles to climb. The toddler room offers soft play, a separate seating area and a dedicated sensory hut.

The barn is also home to a café serving drinks and light meals and a shop with farm-themed souvenirs and produce.

The cow shed and its surrounding buildings were built more than 100 years ago and were used as a milking parlour to provide clean tuberculin-tested milk to the hospitals in Leeds.