Water Balanced Incline and Drumhouse

The drumhouse is at the top of the incline between levels 5 and 6 of the quarry. It has gabled walls rising to a pitched roof, now lacking slates, with an internal offset carrying bearing beams for the drum shaft. The drum is c1.6m in diameter, 2.76m long between iron disks flanges, and is battened with timber. It has a rim band brake operated from an extended lever at the S end. The twisted steel cable is 25mm in diameter and secures the riveted iron plate water vessel, 1.86m x 2.16m x 1.65-0.63m deep mounted on a wooden frame on two axles with curved spoked flanged wheels engaging with top-hat section rails. These are spiked to timber sleepers set flush into the slate-on-edge surface of the incline. A water delivery pipe, 78mm in diameter, passes through the drumhouse to discharge over the water vessel. At the side of the drumhouse there is a ruined lean-to.