Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear

Victoria Hall, built between 1867 and 1871, is a notable example of an institute designed by Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt as part of the model village of Saltaire. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with rock-faced stone to the basement, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is planned in a T-shape and presents a symmetrical, eleven-bay Italianate facade.

The central bay projects and is topped by an elaborate square tower with a pyramidal ashlar roof. This tower features modillioned segmental pediments on enriched entablatures, supported by Corinthian columns framing slender round-arched windows. The main entrance features double panelled doors with a fanlight, topped by a large segmental pediment containing a cartouche displaying the Salt coat of arms, flanked by sculpted figures of Art and Science by Thomas Milnes. The ground floor has square-headed basement windows, and the upper floors feature round-arched windows with archivolts, fluted Corinthian colonnettes, carved head keystones and blind balustrades. A dentilled cornice separates the ground and first floors, leading to a modillioned cornice that forms the base of a deep, panelled parapet decorated with rosettes and piers topped with grotesque winged beasts supporting iron finials. The return elevations consist of three bays.

The main hall projects to the rear and has tall, slender round-arched windows with glazing bars and circular details. Inside, the entrance hall features a large, stone dog-leg staircase with vertically symmetrical turned balusters. The main hall showcases an elaborately plastered, coffered roof, pilasters, and a bracketed entablature. A raking gallery is located at the rear, supported by fluted cast-iron columns; former side galleries have been removed, and later glass panelling has been added at the rear.

A dwarf wall, with missing railings, fronts the building, punctuated by two pairs of square ashlar piers, two of which retain the decorative bases of cast-iron lamp standards. Sculpted lions by Thomas Milnes of London, representing War and Peace, stand on square bases at the front corners. At the rear, round-section cast-iron railings with spear-head finials are set on a dwarf wall.

The institute, costing £25,000 to construct, originally housed a main hall seating 800, a lecture room, two art rooms, a laboratory, a gymnasium, a library of 8,500 volumes, and a reading room. A quarterly fee, ranging downwards from 2s. for adult males, was charged for membership. The building is set back from the road, and its front area, along with that of the adjacent school, forms a gardened square.