Backworth Miners Welfare Hall

Backworth Miners Welfare Hall is a house that has been converted into a club, dated 1778 on the rainwater head. It was designed by William Newton for R.W. Grey. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a graduated Lakeland slate roof and rendered chimneys. It has a basement and two storeys, featuring five bays across the front and one-storey wings that have five bays; only the facade of the right wing remains. The central entrance has a renewed double door and fanlight set within a Venetian doorcase. The basement is rusticated, and there are sash windows with glazing bars, with upper floor windows framed in architraves. The ground floor windows feature fluted friezes and cornices, with pediments above the second and fourth bays. There are ground floor and sill bands, and a dentilled eaves cornice that continues across the pediment above the central three bays, along with a blocking course. The rear has a central pediment and a hipped roof. The wings are arcaded, with the central three bays projecting slightly; doors in the outer bays are blocked except for one door in the left wing. Inside, the entrance hall features a Venetian arch, and the left room on the ground floor has a cast iron grate and a radiating-patterned hearth. However, the interior has been gutted by fire.