Premises of the National Union of Miners is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1986. Premises. 1 related planning application.
Premises of the National Union of Miners
- WRENN ID
- low-belfry-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Barnsley North MP: Dan Jarvis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1986
- Type
- Premises
- Address
- Premises of the National Union of Miners, 1, Victoria Road, S70 2LS
- OS grid reference
- SE 342 068
- Coordinates
- 53.55715, -1.48424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises of the National Union of Miners, located on Victoria Road in Barnsley, were built in 1874 by Wade and Turner. This building serves as the Yorkshire Headquarters for the union and is constructed from pitch-faced stone with ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. It features two storeys and attics, presenting an ordered yet asymmetrical design. The Victoria Road side has four bays, while the Huddersfield Road side has four rounded corner bays and seven additional bays.
On the Huddersfield Road facade, there is a single-storey square stone porch at bay 3, which includes an arched entrance, engaged colonnettes, and a small parapet. The ground-floor windows are segmental-headed, while the first-floor windows are round-arched and adorned with hoodmoulds. Above the doorway, a window features intricate ashlar work at the head and is topped by an attic gable. Bay 1 has a round oriel window on an ashlar pedestal on the first floor. Bay 4 includes an attic storey with two-light, pointed-arched windows and a pavilion roof, which has a broad stack on its right side and large corner finials. Bays 5, 6, and 7 have a central doorway, paired lights to the left, and a three-light canted bay to the right, with windows that have shouldered heads and deep triangular hoodmoulds. Bay 7 projects slightly and is gabled.
The Victoria Road facade mirrors the treatment of bays 5, 6, and 7 on Huddersfield Road, except for bay 4, which is a round tower with narrow windows and a conical roof. The four-bay rounded corner features segmental-headed ground-floor windows, round-arched first-floor windows with hoodmoulds, and a conical roof with three round dormers supported by scrolls and topped with iron cresting. Moulded stone gutter brackets are present, along with parapets on the rounded bays that also feature iron cresting. The building is capped with tall ornamental stacks.
Originally, this structure was established as the Headquarters of the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Miners' Union.
Local climate
Premises of the National Union of Miners receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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