Local lore says the stone barn at the centre of Monck's Landing was built to be indestructible. The Stephens family's wooden barn had blown down in a windstorm, so they hired Ed Valentine, a stonemason just home from the First World War. He hauled the rock with horse drawn wagons and shaped every stone by hand, and the barn went up in 1919. An earthquake in the 1930s couldn't knock a stone loose.
The family run course around it opened in 2008: nine holes of links golf in Norland, with pot bunkers and high fescue rough after the old courses of the British Isles. Go round twice and the tees change. No. 6, Rumney's Roost, takes its name from the district's first tavern and squeezes you with water left of a narrowing fairway. Second time through, it's a drivable par 4.
The barn hosts weddings and events, too.