The Whitworth Institute is a
Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
building in
Darley Dale,
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
.
It was funded by the estate of the late Sir
Joseph Whitworth
Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for scr ...
who lived in nearby
Stancliffe Hall
Stancliffe Hall is a grade II Listed building on Whitworth Road in the settlement of Darley Dale, near Matlock, Derbyshire.
Early history
In 1817, ''Magna Britannia'' reported that
Herbert Greensmith Beard was living there in 1792 when he pa ...
. The building is constructed of Staincliffe stone with green
Westmorland slate
The slate industry is the industry related to the extraction and processing of slate. Slate is either quarried from a ''slate quarry'' or reached by tunneling in a ''slate mine''. Common uses for slate include as a roofing material, a flooring mat ...
.
[ By the end of May 1890 the builders had finished work, and the joiners had moved into the interior. The building cost about £15,000 (). and although completed by September 1890, was not formally opened until May 1891. It contained a large reading room, a billiard room, a smoke room and playroom on the east side, a small reading room on the west and a swimming bath by . Upstairs there were two further reading rooms, and a large hall long and wide capable of seating 200 people.
The Whitworth Institute was given to the people of Darley Dale and in 2009/10 underwent a £1.7m renovation to ensure its continued use for future generations.]
See also
*Listed buildings in Darley Dale
Darley Dale is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 27 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of th ...
References
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Whitworth Whitworth may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
*Whitworth, County Durham, a former civil parish in England
**Whitworth Hall, County Durham
*Whitworth, Lancashire, a town in England
*Whitworth Art Gallery, an art gallery in Manchester, England
*Whitw ...
Buildings and structures completed in 1890