Farmbuildings And Waterwheel, About 200 Metres South East Of Dean Farmhouse

Farmbuildings and a waterwheel, dating from the early to mid-19th century, stand about 200 metres southeast of Dean Farmhouse. The complex originally comprised a granary, shelter sheds, and a waterwheel, linked by a shaft drive to a threshing barn and cider house over a cattle byre, with a granary over the byre and an attached cartshed arranged around a foldyard.

The buildings are constructed of red sandstone rubble masonry, with brick and stone dressings, slate and triple-Roman tile roofing, and corrugated iron roofs. The waterwheel complex is in a “T” shape. A long shelter shed, originally with 12 openings, now has 6, and runs east-west beside a pond. The granary and shelter shed form a right angle at the east end, and the waterwheel is housed in a wheelhouse attached to the south side. The wheelhouse has a corrugated iron roof and leans onto the south side, projecting into the pond as a gabled building with a catslide roof. It contains an undershot cast iron waterwheel in good condition.

The main barn block lies north-south into the hillside, with a projecting wing at the northwest end around the foldyard and a threshing barn on the rear elevation at the southeast end. The main block has an attic. The cattle byre has five segmental-headed openings on the ground floor, while the first floor contains three 3-light mullion windows under stone relieving arches. A cider house is accessible from the ground floor at the rear, via a vamp. The threshing barn has a double door on the north side at ground floor level and an opening on the south side at first floor level. To the left of the facade, a granary sits above a byre, with four-bay arched ground floor openings and circular, unglazed windows in the outer bays. Double doors are positioned on the first floor. A lean-to cartshed with a corrugated iron roof is attached to the north side (left return).

The water-powered shaft drive, likely dating from the mid-19th century, was unusually long and powered a threshing machine, cider making machinery, of which some remains are present. The complex is unusually complete and unaltered.