Beneath the King Street frontage two rubble filled cellars were exposed. In the northern corner, to the rear of no.s 1 and 3 was a c.8.75m long by c.2.4m wide cellar cut down into the bedrock to c.2.2m below present ground. Its orientation and position to the rear of nos. 1 and 3 suggest it was contemporary with these 19th century structures. Two doorways were visible in the south-eastern wall flanking a central tapered coal-shoot still full of coal dust.

Beneath nos. 9 and 9a was a c.6.2m long by c.3.75m wide cellar. This had also been dug down into the bedrock to c.2.2m below present ground and had been divided between nos. 9 and 9a with a single brick thick wall. Two doorways were visible in the south-eastern corner and the remains of a vaulted brick ceilng survived in the eastern corner. The cellar beneath no. 9a had clearly been used to store coal and the floor and walls were coated with thick layers of coal dust. No coal dust was present in no.9's cellar and the walls had been whitewashed suggesting it had been used for other purposes. Both cellars remained unlined, the sandstone bedrock being sufficiently stable to act as the cellar walls.

Two further small brick-lined coal cellars were also partially exposed in the south-eastern corner of the site.

Matthew Morris, 2010, Watching Brief at 1-9 King Street, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT4899.