Barn With Horse-Engine House And Water Wheel 30 Metres To West Of Carhart Farmhouse

ST BREOCK SW 97 SE 3/42 Barn with horse-engine house and water wheel 30 metres to west of Carhart Farmhouse

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Barn with water wheel and horse-engine house. Circa early C19 with horse-engine house added slightly later and water wheel added in 1848. Stone rubble. Slate roof with hipped ends with rag slate roof with hipped end to right. Plan: Barn originally probably of overal 'L' shaped plan with shippons on ground floor and threshing floor and hay loft on first floor. A horse-engine house was added to rear left in circa early C19 and an overshot water wheel was added in an outshot on the left hand side in 1848. Exterior: Two storeys with brick segmental arches to the openings. Asymmetrically placed plank doors flanked by window openings on ground floor with 4-window openings on first and plank door near angle of two ranges. Interior: The horse-engine house appears to retain part of the original timber framing for the machinery including the original central timber post. The water wheel on the left hand side was manufactured by Oatey of Wadebridge and has a date on the wheel, 1848. The hybrid overshot wheel retains its timber buckets and is over 20 feet in diameter.

Listing NGR: SW9565073104