Hay Close south west farmstead and associated section of leat

Water-powered threshing barn and wheel house with attached straw barn, granary and section of associated leat, mid-19th century, with 20th-century alterations.

The buildings are constructed in red sandstone with ashlar dressings and modern corrugated sheet roof coverings. They form the north-west and north-east sides of a former single courtyard-plan farmstead. The barn is fed by a leat from the north-east.

All buildings are two storeys with hipped roofs covered in corrugated sheet. They feature prominent quoins and stone slabs to door surrounds, with windows having plain stone surrounds.

The threshing barn has a rectangular plan. The north-east gable contains a rectangular window opening to both floors and a projecting entrance with a pentile roof. The north-west elevation is partially obscured by an attached wheel house at its north-east end, a small roofless stone lean-to at the north-west end, and a timber lean-to roof set between the two. Beneath the timber roof is a substantial ground-floor entrance to the barn, now blocked. The elevation facing the courtyard has a prominent central arched entrance, now blocked, of similar style to the principal entrance to the yard. To the right are slatted windows to each floor, and to the left are double rows of ventilation slits with a blocked ground-floor opening below. A bay attached to the left with a lean-to roof has blocked doors set one above the other and is interpreted as a former straw barn.

The wheel house has openings to both floors on its north-east elevation and a sub-ground opening where the leat enters. Two large irregular but roughly circular openings are situated immediately to the left of the ground-floor opening. The north-west elevation has a central window to each floor, set one above the other. The south-west elevation has a ground-floor door and a small upper window.

The granary incorporates the original arched entrance to the farmyard steading, with a keystone engraved with the initials WM and the date 1836. The outer north-east elevation has a ground-floor entrance set in a stone surround, now partially blocked, and three identical slatted window openings to the first floor. The inner elevation to the farmyard has three first-floor windows in stone surrounds and a pair of inserted entrances.

Internally, a breeze-block wall has been constructed within the barn as part of its conversion to a modern grain store. The wheel house has a paved floor and a substantial wheel pit considered to have originally housed an undershot waterwheel. A timber structure has been constructed over the wheel pit, and evidence suggests a modified wheel was later installed, probably relating to the presence of a later concrete chute. The granary and the first floor of the wheel house were not inspected.

A narrow, stone-lined section of leat feeding the wheel house, on its south-western section, is included in the listing. Rebuilt and modern ranges attached to the main buildings, and the detached hay barn and modern outbuildings, are not included in the listing.