Explosives magazine for Skelton Shaft iron mines

This is a former explosives magazine built in the 1860s or 1870s for Bell Brothers' Skelton ironstone mines. The building is made of partially rendered red brick and was originally topped with a Welsh slate roof.

The structure features a barrel-vaulted design, with buttresses at both ends that rise to create gables. There are also two additional buttresses in the middle that support a central roof truss. A single entry is located in the eastern gable end. The brickwork was once fully rendered and covered in pitch, but this covering is now only partially intact. At the time of inspection, the roof structure was in a fragmentary state, with only a few slates remaining and some rafters missing.