Snowdown Colliery, Kent Historic Building Assessment and Recording

In November 2005, Oxford Archaeology carried out a programme of building assessment and recording at Snowdown Colliery, Kent, in advance of redevelopment likely involving demolition of the former colliery buildings. The colliery was started in 1907 and finally closed in 1988, and is the last of the former Kent coalmines with a significant number of surviving buildings. There are two buildings including some major extensions surviving. The majority were built in brick with steel roof trusses; some of the larger buildings have girder frames incorporated into the brickworks. Some have developed serious structural defects.