Former cattle sheds incorporating smithy and implement shed at Dawpool Farm

A group of former cattle sheds, incorporating a smithy and implement shed, dating to around 1865. They were built for James Hegan. The buildings are constructed of coursed, rock-faced red sandstone, with graduated Welsh slate roofs. They form an irregular range set around a yard to the south of the former barn and granary at Dawpool Farm, and are attached to the barn by a two-storey link. The implement shed forms the north-east side of the yard, with a projection containing a loose box and smithy workshop beyond. The four-bay loose box has port-slatted casement windows in ashlar surrounds with rounded sills and chamfered quoins and lintels. The smithy, in an additional end bay, has a boarded door to the left of a four-pane window. The building features rounded kneelers, ashlar gable copings, a raised ridge with louvred side panels interspersed with glazed lights. The implement shed, adjoining at right angles, has a four-bay opening divided by iron posts. An enclosed end bay has boarded double doors. The main cattle shed comprises four bays, with three square-headed doorways at the north-east end, each with boarded doors and overlights in chamfered, quoined surrounds, and part-slatted casement windows. A section at the south-west end is linked by bull-pens to a row of individual pens, all under a single roof with a raised ridge. The two-storey link to the barn has an open-sided ground floor to the east, featuring an ashlar oculus with sill and hood, flanked by small casement windows. The opposite side of the link has a square-headed waggon entrance aligned with the main farm drive. The buildings are listed for group value as part of a planned farm complex, with the barn and granary (dated 1862) being the most significant element. The cattle sheds are of the same date, although the loose box has later rubble walling facing Station Road. The implement shed may also be of a later date.