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Freestanding single-bay single-storey sluice house, built c.1838, set on man-made dam enclosing former reservoir. Roofless, with tooled stone eaves course over rock-faced rusticated limestone walls with rusticated quoins. Square-headed door opening having rusticated limestone lintel. Pair of square-plan pits to interior, and with tooled limestone walls, cast-iron brackets and gate controls over each. Channel to rear of sluice gate with double-span entrance feeding water to base of internal pits, with round arches having tooled limestone voussoirs, rock-faced rusticated spandrel walls, flanked by rock-faced rusticated stone wings, dressed stone coping throughout. Ruins of sluice-gate keeper's cottage to north of dam.
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