Barn Complex And Waterwheel Abutting East Side Of Dutch Garden

ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP HESTERCOMBE

5/51 Barn complex and waterwheel abutting East side of Dutch garden at Hestercombe

GV II

Barn complex including pumping house and waterwheel. Circa 1904-9 altered mid C20. By Edwin Lutyens for the Hon EWB Portman. Local slate ragstone laid in courses where visible from gardens (qv) of Hestercombe House (qv), otherwise random rubble, pantiled barn rest double Roman tiles. Plan: barn lying North-South set in to hillside at North end, West front forming boundary of Dutch garden, waterwheel on North East front, West wing, additional buildings not of special interest, included due to alteration. North gable end, single story plank door with divided leaded -light above, abutting wall of Dutch garden swept up to West. South front: 2 storey, sepaental headed 4-light mullioned and transomed leaded windows with wmoirs, wooden lintel to altered opening below, West wing altered. Overshot cast iron waterwheel, in poor condtion at tine of survey (April 1984) in North East corner. Interior not seen. This building probably included the machinery for feeding the water gardens from the higher pond about 10 metres to the North.

Listing NGR: ST2425728703