Slurry Tank

A huge brick-walled structure, rectangular in plan, approximately 49x29m, partially set into a bank on the W side, and with a large tank in the centre. Of brick with a slate roof to the S range. The principal surviving range is to the E, which is 2-storeyed and has a 13-bay elevation with bullseye windows above round-headed doorways (2 of which have boarded sliding doors, and 3 are partially blocked to form lunettes). In the outer bays are smaller lunettes. Above the bullseye windows is a white brick dentil cornice and a parapet formed by taking a third storey down to window sill level. The S range has a wide doorway to L in a rusticated surround, and with a horizontally sliding boarded door. To R is a round-headed doorway reached by a raised path with brick retaining wall. The inner face of the S range has 6 openings under segmental heads, of which 4 retain some of their original louvres and beneath 2 of which are chutes through which muck was swept into the tank. Below is a 6-bay, barrel vaulted undercroft open to the tank. The N range has a similar undercroft, but is otherwise mostly demolished. It has a short brick tunnel below a ramp to the NW. The W range is also mostly demolished.

Not inspected (November 1996). It is said that in the E range the ground floor doorways lead into rectangular cells. In the first floor is a central full-length corridor with a brick vault. In the S wing the interior is divided into pens.