Power Station, Prestongrange Colliery

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, rectangular-plan former generating house, on falling ground. Red brick, with contrasting brickwork banding. Round-arched openings at 1st floor.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 7-bay; modern timber door with radial semicircular fanlight at centre, vertically-boarded timber door with radial semicircular fanlight in penultimate bay from left; windows to remaining bays.

W GABLE: 3-bay; later brick addition to right at ground, brick-infilled segmental-arched openings in bays at ground; windows in bays at 1st floor; decorative brick roundel centred above.

N ELEVATION: 7-bay; modern timber bipartite door in penultimate bay from left at ground, with cement lintel; brick-infilled segmental-arched openings in remaining bays at ground; brick-infilled opening in bay to outer left at 1st floor, windows in remaining bays at 1st floor. Large wall-mounted metal bracket projecting to outer left.

E GABLE: 3-bay; cement ramp with brick walls and flat coping, descending to central slapping at ground with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door; brick-infilled segmental-arched openings to left and right at ground; windows in bays at 1st floor, central window part-infilled; decorative brick roundel centred above.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.

Predominantly 18-pane fixed timber windows, with radial semicircular fanlights, covered by grills. Red pantile roof; stone ridge, stone skews and decorative skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods.