Penallta Colliery Workshops

Colliery workshop block, designed to match the others of the main colliery complex in style. A long 2-storeyed gabled structure on a N/S axis, some 90m long by 16m wide, built of Pennant sandstone with red brick dressings which comprise pilasters separating pairs of windows, end piers, stepped parapets, plinth and dentilled window and door surrounds incorporating keystones. Roof is of steel construction formerly with slates on the upper slope and glass below, now re-covered with corrugated material; the central ridge acted as a raised ventilator and rooflight. E side of 18 bays has tall segmental-arched windows formerly with multi-pane metal frames now blocked. Two large doorways and 3 small led into the different sections of the building, some formerly with smaller windows above them. Gable ends have a 3-window range and double-pitch gables rising to the raised ridge. Series of small chimneys, including at W end for the smiths’ shop. Low extension with corrugated roof of uneven pitch attached at left (S) end.