Whitworth Hall

Whitworth Hall is a house that was rebuilt between 1891 and around 1900 after a fire destroyed an earlier house from about 1845. This site has been associated with the Shafto family since 1652. The library wing is believed to be a remnant of the early 19th-century house. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble with an ashlar plinth and features ashlar and brick dressings. The library wing is rendered but also has an ashlar plinth and dressings. The roof is made of graduated Lakeland slate, with ashlar-corniced brick and rendered chimneys, and a roll-moulded lead ridge; the rear slope is covered with Welsh slate.

The house has an irregular plan that centers around a rear courtyard. The east elevation facing the garden is two stories tall and has seven bays, with the library wing set back on the left and connected to rear outbuildings that join the left side of the main range. The front features a tetrastyle porch with a triglyph frieze in the third bay, and half-glazed double doors beneath a fanlight with radiating glazing bars. The ground floor has margined sashes in brick jambs under flat brick arches, with projecting stone sills; the right end bay is blank. The first floor has similar jambs and sills with nine-pane sashes, except for a casement with Gothic glazing bars above the porch. There are eaves band lintels below the top cornice and ball finials on a small pediment over the entrance bay. The roof has ridge chimneys.

To the left, there is a set-back, one-storey, two-bay outbuilding that is blank to the front except for a door leading to a pent conservatory. The library wing, attached to the left end of the outbuilding, has one high storey and one blank bay to the front, while the left return features three French windows with high overlights. The eaves bands continue around the recessed quadrant-plan corners, which have a coped parapet. The right return has a long service wing, and the rear elevation of the main range includes a near-central porch with a hipped roof. The conservatory is not of interest.