The drive up to this lovely site is somewhat twisty and, without a map to follow, quite tricky. The end result is well worth it though.
Parking in the entrance to the trackway that follows the stream that passes just in front of the sweathouse gives you a perfect view of it embedded into the bank. The top of the corbelled roof forms a mound which stands proud of the top of the bank.
The chamber is surprisingly large: I could easily stand up inside it and if the floor hadn't been soaking wet I could have lay down across it. The entrance is about 1m tall and just 60cm or wide, and, because a spring seems to now be pouring water out of the rear wall forming a stream that runs through the doorway, getting in is rather an interesting excercise.
I'm not sure how the modern lighting along the driveway and the brightly painted piece of antique farm machinery fit in with the sweathouse, but I imagine that it might look quite magical at nighttime: it looks very grotto-esque anyway, so some dim, ambient light at night should look rather good.
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