Esh Winning Miners' Memorial Hall

The Esh Winning Miners' Memorial Hall is a former miners' memorial hall and village community centre, built in 1928 by J.A. Robson to commemorate victims of the First World War. This building features a rock-faced stone basement and is constructed of light-red engineering brick in stretcher bond, with elaborate yellow terracotta dressings above. It has a plain, tiled roof and is a late example of Edwardian Baroque architecture, comprising two storeys plus a basement.

The facade is symmetrical with a layout of three plus two plus one plus two plus three bays. The central and end sections project forward, with the basement topped by a string course. The first floor and eaves are adorned with friezes and enriched cornices, while the parapet showcases balustraded panels. The ground-floor sash windows are set in architraves and feature aprons, moulded sills, and margined glazing bars. The first floor has round-headed sashes in eared architraves with swept bases, shaped tops, and triple keystones.

The central section includes a double door within a porch that has an open segmental pediment, squat columns, and angular capitals. This porch is flanked by rusticated pilasters on stone pedestals. Above, two sashes are located under a large open segmental pediment supported by panelled pilasters. The roof features a shaped false gable and a central clock face, along with a wood lantern and cupola on the ridge.

The flanking two-bay sections are set back, and the end sections have an open-pedimented centre bay that breaks forward, framed by rusticated pilasters with panelled pilasters above. The centre bay contains a wide ground-floor window and a first-floor tripartite window, which has a pedimented centre light and a radial glazed head, surrounded by a triple keystone and semicircular archivolt on pilasters with angular capitals. The flat-topped, hipped roof has steeply-pitched sides and projects over the facade's projecting sections, showcasing high-quality materials and craftsmanship.