Marlpit Lane runs northwest from School Lane that leads to Baconsthorpe, before turning further west to join Pond Hills Road at the crossroads with The Street and Clamp Lane at the southern end of the village.

It seems likely that the three Church Farm cottages each then occupied by two families are the same three double cottages of which two passed to the Youngs family with Pit Farm in 1936 to be sold off with the farm in 1970 (that is “Marlpits'' and “Tinkers Cottage”) and one (“Pond Hills Cottages”) which remained with Church_Farm which was sold in the eighties by the Carvers. Alternatively they may have been the predecessors of the three surviving “pairs'' (now each one house), with Lady Suffield rebuilding on the same sites over a period of time. This theory is borne out by the 1841 Tithe Map which shows Lady Suffield as owner and the (now) two pairs in Marlpit Lane occupied by William Allen and others. On the map only one half of Marlpit Cottage later owned by Mr & Mrs Durst is shown as then existing, possibly indicating that the rebuilding process was still incomplete.
Hempstead, A Norfolk Village - Robin Carver, 2000

HISTORY OF MARLPITS (No 43 and No 44 Marlpit Lane)
Original Numbers for the cottages on the wall between the study and sitting room in their right halves!   
The pair of cottages were built c.1820 by the Stody Estate, which was owned by Dowager Lady Suffield, and was probably jointly run with Blickling. The cottages were numbered by the Estate, not the village.
Marlpits was No 43 and No 44. There are three pairs of cottages still standing in Hempstead; there was a fourth but that has gone. Built of whole flint on the front face with brick surrounds to the windows, the back and sides are brick and flint mixture. The original cottages each had four rooms, a living room, 2 bedrooms and a back kitchen. In the 1900’s a copper and bread oven with their own chimney were put in, built with bricks marked H for Hastings from the Melton Constable Estate. The main rooms had cast iron fireplaces. Outside was a small separate building in which were two privies and two coal sheds, one for each cottage. The water supply was a well, which was shared with the next-door pair of cottages. (One of the copper bowls is in the courtyard raised flowerbed as a small pond and another is in the greenhouse; the well bucket (found at the bottom of the well!) and an oven is in the shed at the bottom of the field).
My parents bought the cottages in 1970, both were derelict, one had been empty for two years and the other for four years. They knocked them together and added the two wings at the back. The builder was local builder Hector Matthews. We moved in in August 1972. They bought the field at the back at the same time, the soil is apparently sand near the top and loam at the bottom. Once used by the village as allotments.
David Durst - c.2000

The New Bullock Barn was built in the 1930s but was falling into disrepair by 1979 and after the Carver family took over Hole Farm in 1982, the barn was dismantled to prevent further theft of roof tiles and bricks etc.