Kelly Coles is saying goodbye to Woodley Park Farm, the Devon farmhouse that made her an Instagram sensation with videos starring Sparky the pony (and a menagerie of her four-legged friends from the farm) roaming freely through the house.
Last year, when she shared a reel captioned ‘Half term = chaos’, she probably didn’t expect it to be loved by more than five million people: the clip showed her youngest son guiding Sparky through the kitchen of the family’s Devon home while dogs wandered, chickens roosted nearby and lunch preparations went on around them. Already popular for her posts about family life, horses and renovating their rural home, Kelly soon saw her pass the million mark, Sparky became an internet favorite in her own right and the world became obsessed with the property at the center of it all. But the Home and garden Couldn’t get enough of the editorial, so we had to Check it out yourself.
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Now, this Instagram-famous Devon farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor is on sale for £875,000 By Knight Frank.
Kelly and her husband Toby, both longtime riders who previously worked in the equestrian world, moved to the property in 2020 after looking for somewhere with enough land for their family and horses. The house came with substantial acreage (23.98 acres to be exact), outbuildings and plenty of potential, but required significant work. Despite sustaining a serious back injury during the process, Toby carried out most of the renovations himself over the years, while the family lived in temporary accommodation on site.
