Abbey House Ruins Of Monastic Barn

The ruins of a barn, largely converted into a house, date back to the 14th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. Constructed from rubble sandstone with a stone slate roof, the riverside (west) elevation features two storeys and two bays internally, extending to six. Abbey House is situated to the left, displaying 20th-century window openings. The barn incorporates small lancet windows in each ground-floor bay. On the first floor, in the second and fifth bays, are pitching doorways with stone platforms supported on corbels, and two lancet windows with labels. The roof is missing. The continuation of the west elevation to the right appears medieval but has no distinct architectural features.

The east elevation’s barn section features a wide opening with a segmental arch reconstructed from chamfered stones, bearing the inscription "WSS 73" on the keystone, alongside a pitching doorway and the chamfered surround of a two-light mullion window on the first floor. Adjacent to this, Abbey House displays a central doorway with dogtooth decoration on the jambs and a shouldered head, flanked by four-pane windows with shouldered heads – the right window is positioned below an ogee arch with carving. An external stack is located at the right end. To the left are 19th-century farm buildings built into and onto the southern side of the barn, which are not considered to have group value.

Inside the barn, the ground-floor openings on the west side have deeply-splayed reveals. The end walls show steeply-pitched gables. The medieval barn was originally part of the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Agatha.