Kiveton Park Colliery Offices

The building comprises a group of office buildings dating to 1875, originally constructed for the Kiveton Park Coal Company. It is located on Wales Colliery Road, south of Kiveton Park, and represents an unusual survival within the South Yorkshire coalfield. The offices are constructed of red brick with a Welsh slate roof, arranged in an irregular U-shaped plan, and incorporate Gothic-style detailing.

The main elevation faces the former colliery site. The facade is arranged with 2:3:2:2 bays, with the two bays on the left forming a tall, gabled, two-storey crosswing. The bays to the right are single-storey with an attic. The gabled bays on the left have a chamfered brick plinth and a moulded sill band. Buttresses are positioned between sashes featuring traceried, round-arched heads with pointed hoodmoulds. Features include corbelling beneath a V-shaped first-floor bay window with two square-headed sashes and a small pyramidal roof. The asymmetric gable on the right rises into a square clock turret, featuring glass-faced clocks on a drum beneath a pyramidal roof with louvred gablets. A rebuilt shaft is attached to an original offset lateral stack to the rear of the turret. Lower bays, set back on the right, bear cast-iron air bricks in the plinth, inscribed with ‘Built in the year/of THE LORD 1875’. A stone sill band connects the sashes, with buttresses flanking the central gabled bays which have traceried, round-arched heads with hoodmoulds and a gable oculus with crossed glazing bars and a decorative brick surround. Roof dormers are located above the outer bays, while an octagonal central lantern has a swept roof. An original offset end stack is on the right, featuring a corbelled top. The right return includes a two-bay end gable on the left, featuring inserted pay hatches flanking a First World War memorial in the form of a segmentally-pedimented Ionic aedicule. A door is positioned on the right, with a lower link block beyond it, including a front addition and a tall stack to the rear. A taller, single-bay block on the right has an arched-headed four-pane sash beneath decorative brickwork and two slit windows within the gable, with an original ridge stack. The left return incorporates a canted, two-storey bay-window projection with its own hipped roof. The sinking of the colliery commenced in 1866.