Lothian Coal Company Offices, Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange

The Lothian Coal Company Offices, located at Lady Victoria Colliery in Newtongrange, were originally built in 1873 as a school. The building is a two-storey structure with a U-shaped plan and rear wings, designed with a formal symmetry. It is constructed from coursed, tooled sandstone with stugged dressings.

The west-facing front elevation features an advanced, crenellated central porch. A mullioned bipartite window is positioned above the entrance. Moulded doorways are located in the left and right returns, leading to a folding two-leaf entrance door. Flanking the porch are single-storey gabled bays, each featuring a mullioned bipartite window, with an additional single window to the right. An 1873 datestone is visible, inscribed with an ‘L’ (for Lothian) and a coronet above the left window. The outer bays are gabled two-storey structures, with advanced mullioned bipartite box windows and a canted ashlar roof. A further mullioned bipartite window is centred above at the first floor level.

The north elevation has an advanced, flat-roofed central bay, containing two single windows. A timber panelled door is positioned to the left, above which is a four-pane fanlight. Flanking this are further windows, and another single window is located to the outer left. Three single windows are situated to the far right, with gabled dormers punctuating the first floor.

The rear, east-facing elevation includes a single-bay wing to the far right and a more complex M-gabled wing to the left, constructed from snecked sandstone. This wing features two mullioned bipartite windows on the ground floor, mirrored above at the first floor level, with chamfered surrounds; the windows are positioned deliberately off-centre. A courtyard sits between the two wings. A modern fire escape staircase ascends to the upper floor on the right side, alongside rooflights and gabled dormers.

The south elevation has a single window to the far left, and an advanced gabled bay to the right, containing a single window on both the ground and first floors, as well as a rooflight. Three single windows are situated to the right, with an arched entrance featuring a hoodmould and vousoirs. A replacement door is positioned to the right of the archway, and a mullioned bipartite window is located to the far right. Three single gabled dormers break through the eaves, centrally positioned above the arch, with flanking mullioned bipartite, gabled dormers also breaking the eaves.

Most windows on the principal elevation are predominantly eight-pane timber sash and case windows. Elsewhere, these are four-pane upper and two-pane lower timber sash and case windows, though some have been replaced in the 1990s. The building is roofed with gabled slate, featuring overhanging bracketed eaves, studded timber bargeboards to gables and dormers, corniced ridge chimneys with polygonal clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior features geometric pattern floor tiles in the porch, a corniced arch and central staircase in the hall, timber panelling, panelled shutters, panelled doors, and cornices.