Rafter Reserve
Raw ewe's milk · 14 months · 200 g or 400 g
£7.20per 200 g
Cut fresh Thursday morningWeigh me one
Bideford · cutting since 2011
Cheese weighed, wrapped and written on by hand.
Twelve lines on the slate this fortnight, from nine farms inside forty miles of the Torridge. We cut to the gram, fold it into waxed paper, and write the date on the outside in pencil.
- Chilled post leaves Tuesday and Thursday
- Devon & Cornwall £4.50 · rest of UK £6.95
- Free over £60, no code needed
№ 01
Rafter Reserve — pick a weightWhole wheels are 2.4 kg and want three days' notice.
Wrap slip£7.20200 g · raw ewe's milk · 14 monthsCut fresh Thursday morning
Hartland Shippon
Torridge Mead
Welcombe Barton
Nine farms
Everything on the slate is made within forty miles of this door. We drive out for it on Wednesdays, and we pay the price the dairy asks.
Who we buy from
Clovelly Goats
Appledore Creamery
Fremington Herd
Instow Ewes
Yeo Vale Dairy
Weare Giffard
Landcross Pigs
Buckland Brewer
Abbotsham Herd
Cut this week
Stock written in words. If it says four left, there are four left.Six of the twelve lines we are cutting. Prices are per cut weight; the rest live on the slate.
Torridge Blue
Cow's milk · 10 weeks · 200 g or 400 g
£6.40per 200 g
Only four wedges leftWeigh me one
Clovelly Goat Log
Goat's milk · 280 g log · plain or ash-rolled
£6.90each
Sold out — back Friday 13 MarchPut me on the waiting list
Westward Air-Dried Ham
18 months · sliced to order · 100 g or 200 g
£9.50per 100 g
Two legs on the standWeigh me one
The Saturday Board
Five cheeses · serves six · 1.1 kg total
£38.00built to order
Built the morning you collectOrder a board
The Paper Parcel
Four cheeses, two cured, oatcakes · 1.6 kg
£62.00posted or collected
Six left before the Tuesday postWeigh me one
All twelve lines on the slate
Under the shop
A stone room at eleven degrees, and somebody turning wheels.
The cellar runs the length of Bridgeland Street. Wheels come in young from the dairies, go onto spruce boards, and get turned and brushed until they are ready. Nothing leaves early because a weekend is busy.
- Turned by hand every fourth day
- Brushed with brine, never waxed shut
- Tasted before it goes on the slate
- Cut the morning it is sold or posted
Walk through the cellar
Shelf 4, south wall — ewe's milk, turning week nineThree steps
Tell us, we cut it, it goes in paper.
No basket, no checkout. You send a note or come to the door, and a person answers it.
Say what it is for
Six people and a bottle of red, or one person and a Tuesday. We would rather hear that than a list of names.
Six people · £40 · no blue, one goatCollect Saturday before noon
We cut and price it
You get back a written list with the real cut weights and the real total, before anything is wrapped.
Rafter Reserve 220 g — £7.92Torridge Blue 180 g — £5.76Hartland Tomme 210 g — £6.09
Step three
Paper, string, pencil
Each piece is folded into waxed paper, dated on the outside, and tied into one parcel. Collect it from the rear yard on Bridgeland Street, or we post it chilled on Tuesday and Thursday.
Market days and hours
“I asked for something to go with a very ordinary bottle of cider and got a hand-written note back with three options and the prices. The middle one was perfect and cost eleven pounds.”
Saturday, 11am — the Pannier Market pitchTell us the number of people and the budget.
We will write back with a board, the cut weights and the total. Usually the same day, always before we cut anything.
Order a board