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Thank you everyone.  Very interesting.   

A cider press in the early 19th Century was probably using stones?

Thank you for that..., very interesting.

In the meantime, I will call it a day with this post as it’s not quite genealogy.

Nonetheless, I did find something interesting that could relate to the houses lived-in by all our ancestors.
The image is/was the system used to hold plaster for the ceilings…   A type of ladder system that would have been assembled elsewhere in the form of ladders, then placed one-by-one to create a ‘floor.’  And they could have resembled the objects on the grass.
As a matter of interest:  In those days, fry-feed for the horses (‘carburant’) was often stocked in the attics, as it acted as insulation.  At Hougoumont, the gentleman-farmer Dumonceau had received a notarial licence to sell hay, (‘Haymarket’) telling us that following the heatwave, the whole complex was obviously chock-a-block with the stuff.  Then came the French with their howitzers and their incendiary carcass…, and the munitions simply pierced the slates and burned everything surrounding it.  That ‘insulation’ led to one of the reasons for Napoleon’s success in Europe.  At least…, until the Scots Guards arrived. (lol)   

Thank you everyone…, all very inventive.  I see there’s potential for a team of battlefield detectives out there.     And I absolutely love that suspension bridge idea ! 
I added the URL for this post on an archaeological forum to ask them what they think.  ‘Waterloo Uncovered.’ (PTSD-related soldier archaeologists)  They found several Scots Guards buttons in that building, under the rubble of GREY slate (lol) and charcoal.  Perhaps they may be able to pinpoint something else. 
Thank you for your help…, Iain. 
   
Victoria…, by the way.  You cannot imagine the number of times I think about you when I write the words ‘Courts- Martial.’ (well over a hundred times in the manuscript) Thank you.  Only the National Archives and the MOD get it right.   

This is the rear of the farm and in 1815, that was the orchard strip.  No trees, as they were cut down by the rear party.  Meaning that all wood would have been used for the many pyres along that wall. (as per the Dighton painting)  However, you could be correct, it that it made up parts of the roofing. 

Perhaps I should add that the lane to the right of the building is the ‘western lane,’ separating the farm from its kitchen garden.  That garden had a wooden fence, interspersed by a single line of trees. 
The elements leaning against the wall look like ladders. 
But then again, so do the two projecting from the building.