The container is easy to find at the front of the house (but not the large letter-box). It's contents are guarded by dragons who won't let you in until you enter the code. Fortunately the code is near-by for those who can see clearly. Depending on how good the light and your eyesight are, you might need binoculars or equivalent. You will need to get information from Number 2 West Farm Cottages (the next door property about 30 metres to the West), and find out from information on that building, how many yards from the sea it was when it was built in 1896. Don't worry about the barking dogs there - they do that a lot, whether you are there or not! Add a zero at the front of the number you find, to make it a four figure code, and the cache will be revealed.
The credit for the basic concept behind this cache belongs to ProjectTripod, not myself, I have just borrowed it.
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The front of this house looks like a barn door because it was originally built as a barn. It was built in the 1840's for Holmpton Rocket Brigade. It is likely that the bricks for it were locally made. The small wood by the side of the Nursery to the West is called Brick Close Plantation.
The Rocket Brigades were voluntary lifesaving groups that were set up all around the Coast. The first Rocket Brigade was created in 1808 In Great Yarmouth by a Captain George Manby, who also invented the Breaches Buoy (which is still in use to-day). The last recorded rescue by a Rocket Brigade was near the river Tyne in 1963.
When a ship hit the beach, they set up a large rocket (very much like a modern rocket firework) on a metal tripod and fired it over the ship in distress. The rocket had a light line attached to it, and the aim was to get the line to drop onto the ship. Once they had a light line between the ship and the shore, they could use this to get progressively heavier ropes across until they were strong enough for the people on board to use them to escape to shore using a Breeches Buoy.
The Rocket House was first built to store the cart carrying this equipment and the rockets, rope etc, (but not the horses to pull the cart - those used by any of the local farms could be used when needed), and was extended in the 19th Century as more storage space was needed.
The Hompton Rocket Brigade was disbanded in the 1950's and the building was later further expanded and converted to residential use.
Some colourised pictures of Holmpton Rocket Brigade (and the rest of the village) are on www.holmpton.org.uk