Former Gasworks

The former gasworks, built in 1883 for Messrs Thompson, lessee of the Earl of Carlisle's collieries, is a small single-storey structure made of calciferous hammer-dressed sandstone, featuring rusticated quoins and dressings. The building has a corrugated asbestos roof and Welsh slate with coped gables and kneelers. It includes a short square tapering chimney and is adjoined by a two-storey tower topped with a pyramidal roof, which has a projecting single-storey, two-bay extension. The end entrance has been enlarged around 1920 when the building was converted to a colliery foundry, featuring an iron girder and 20th-century brick, with a date stone above and a shaped gable. There is an unglazed side window, while the tower to the right has a plank door and a similar unglazed opening. The extension also has plank doors. The gasworks did not have an external cylinder and supplied gas for the nearby colliery works. The exterior is complete, but there are no internal fitments, and the building was derelict at the time of resurvey.