Seaton Burn Colliery, workshops (Buttess House)

The workshops were built in two phases with the South East facing stone built single storey block being the earlier. The workshops contained the stores, blacksmiths, plummers, fitters and joiner's shop and contained a number of fire places and an internal tubway and probably dated from the sinking of the colliery. The rear extension to the building dated from the period 1899-1922, as did the majority of the buildings which formed the colliery site until the late 1980s. The colliery closed in 1985. The workshops were restored as units by the Tyne and Wear Building Preservation Trust in 1991 {1}. The workshops (Buttress House, Brenkley Way, Blezard Business Park) are now occupied by Mental Health Concern. LOCAL LIST