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

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.