The Brittain Colliery Engine house was built c. 1848 from red brick with blue brick dressings and a slate roof with wide eaves. It is a single storey building of 2 bays. Each side has two semi-circular headed windows with Gothick traceried metal windows (now boarded up) and projecting stone sills. The north gable wall has a similar semi-circular headed window to the centre and a plank door below a stone lintel to the left. There is a small square opening above the window to the left. The interior has been gutted. Brittain colliery was founded by the Butterley Company, between 1845 and 1848 and was mined for over 50 years. (1) Consists of unusual head stocks (see SMR 24710) partially encased in a round brick tower with a gutted engine house. (2) Grade II listed engine house at Western Pit assessed under MPP Coal as Derby 2. Western Pit is though to have worked both coal and iron ore. (3)