Weaver Hall

Weaver Hall is a workhouse built in 1837 by George Latham, which later became an old people's hospital and is now the Salt Museum and the headquarters for the County Council Museums' Service. The building features Flemish bond brown brickwork and a grey slate roof. It is two storeys high with 13 windows, plus a later two-storey extension on the left. The original symmetrical part consists of nine windows, with a slightly later wing of four windows to the right, both made of similar materials and in the same style.

A slightly projecting two-storey porch has three windows, a broken pediment, and a projecting datestone on the gable that reads "AD 1837." Above the porch is a square clock turret with a pyramidal roof and a weather vane. The building has a painted stone plinth, an upper storey cill band, and small-pane wood cross-casements under gauged brick flat arches. The entrance features a four-panel door with a plain oblong overlight. There are three brick chimneys on the roof.

The rear wing, which was originally larger, has been altered. An early 20th-century Vernacular Revival extension made of dark red brick includes cross-gables on the left and right of a flat-roofed one-storey porch. To the right, there is a two-storey canted bay window, two-pane sashes, and three-panel double doors set in a round-arched opening, with gauged brick flat arches above the windows and six shaped red brick chimneys.

Inside, the 19th-century portion has been completely altered, while the left wing from the 20th century contains the former Board Room, which features three-panel wide double doors, a coved ceiling, and a carved fireplace.