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This coke works was built by William Bard and Co of the Garthserrie Iron Works alongside Gartshore Pits Nos 5 and 6. Because the Gartsherrie Iron Works employed the hot blast method initially there were no coke ovens at the works, coal being used directly. Later coke was used and coke ovens were erected at Gartshore and a number of other locations such as Haugh Coke Ovens and Neilston Coke Ovens. The private railway linked the mines to the coke works and to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line. Via this line, and others, the works could be reached.

Approach to the Gartshore coke ovens was from the west., with sidings to the north and south of the row of two banks of ovens. Pits nos 5 and 6 were to the east of the ovens.

A coke oven was later added at Gartsherrie Iron Works rendering coke ovens such as these, and those at Bedlay Colliery, redundant.

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