Swanwick Common Colliery Headstock and Winding House

The site includes a steel headstock and a brick winding house, dating from the early 20th century and representing a small colliery. The winding house is rectangular and oriented roughly north-south, situated approximately 10 metres north of the headstock.

The winding house is constructed of brick with a slate roof, displaying English bond in the lower courses and gables, while the remainder uses English garden wall or irregular bond. The south elevation, facing the headstock, features a single steel door and lintel within an opening that was previously wider and taller; the space above the original stone lintel has been bricked in. A rectangular opening, now infilled with brick and a brick lintel, is centrally positioned above the old lintel and likely conveyed cables to the headstock from the winding machine. The side elevations are plain brick, adorned with recessed panels approximately one-third of the way up, with the bases of the panels marked by blue plinth bricks. A steel door, set 1 metre above ground level and with a concrete lintel, is present on each side elevation, though the steps leading up to the north side door are missing. The interior consists of a single room open to the rafters, with exposed brick walls and a concrete screed over a section of the floor. A slight drop exists at the floor's south end. Electrical switchgear is mounted on the east wall, and a blocked opening is visible beneath a stone lintel in the west wall.

The headstock is a simple structure built from ‘I’ profile steel beams bolted together and braced with diagonal steel struts. Two pairs of parallel rails, also formed from steel beams, each carry a steel wheel. The frames are buttressed by further steel beams to the north.