Buildings 2 & 3 and boundary wall, former Elsecar Ironworks entry range

This is an entrance building and boundary wall from the 1860s, originally constructed for the Elsecar Ironworks by Dawes. It was renovated in the 1990s as part of the Elsecar Heritage Centre.

The building is constructed of well-dressed, coursed sandstone on its west-facing elevation, which faces Forge Lane, and brick on the remaining sides. The roof is covered in Welsh slate with a single, short brick ridge stack.

The building is a linear, two-storey range with two through-accesses designed for carriages.

The west elevation, facing Forge Lane, now has six bays. The first floor features four round-arched windows, with the outer bays being blind. These windows have projecting sills and are infilled with brickwork set back into the openings. The southernmost bay on the ground floor has a similar window opening that is blocked with stonework. The next two bays originally formed the carriage entrance to the ironworks, featuring an impressively wide basket arch supported by a single iron casting and brick headers. The jambs are quoined and slightly chamfered, and the opening is now filled with 20th-century brickwork. Immediately to the north is a blocked pedestrian entrance, also infilled with brickwork, with a monolithic lintel supported by a flat iron plate. The following two bays originally had arched windows; the first is now blocked, and the second has been enlarged into a double door, retaining the arched head of the original window as an iron-framed fanlight. The northernmost bay includes a narrow, voussoired-arched carriage entrance providing access to the rear of 4 Forge Lane.

The east elevation is constructed of mixed red brick, with yellow brick highlights for the arches. It features four round-arched windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor, all with distinctive iron-framed windows believed to be replacements of the originals. The broad carriage entrance is infilled with a glazed screen, while a modern glazed door serves a pedestrian entrance immediately to the north. A further doorway has been inserted on the south side of the carriage archway. Towards the north end of the elevation, two narrower carriage entrances are present, both with basket arches formed in brickwork. The northern entrance is open, providing access to the rear yard of 4 Forge Lane, while the southern entrance is infilled with a modern glazed screen.

The interior has been re-ordered, but retains exposed timber king-post roof trusses.

A boundary wall, originally part of the ironworks entrance range, now connects the entrance building to the casting house. The western face is stone, while the eastern face is brick. It retains three blocked, round-arched windows with projecting stone sills, suggesting the archway was originally more central to the original entrance building design. Beyond these windows, the wall is blind and rises up the hillside to meet the casting house.