Workshops at Skelton Park disused iron mine

Blacksmiths' and joiners' workshops, between 1870-1873 for Bell Brothers' Cleveland iron mines.

MATERIALS: good quality rockfaced sandstone ashlar with margined dressings to front; roughly coursed rubble elsewhere; brick chimneys and extensions.

PLAN: linear range with a large blacksmiths' shop to the north east and a smaller joiners' to the south west, separated by a small engine room. To the rear of the joiners there is a brick extension used as a saw mill. At the northern end there is a small projecting brick lean-to added originally used for an electric blower for the hearths, and to the rear is a brick built cart shed.

DESCRIPTION: single storey, long range of 10 bays. The blacksmiths' is of five bays with a central cart entrance with a basket arch originally flanked by two pairs of window openings, although at the time of the inspection, the wall to the north of the cart entrance had collapsed, taking down two window openings. The blacksmiths' retains part of its roof structure, complete with a central, ridge-placed timber ventilator. The workshop has brick built ridge stacks and a further four stacks rising from the rear wall, each serving a smithing hearth.

The engine room is of a single bay with a basket-arched cart entrance. It is served by a ridge stack to the left. The roof structure has collapsed.

The joiners' is of four bays with a further basket-arched cart entrance to the centre flanked by three window openings. Roof structure collapsed.