Chatsworth Estate Office And Village Institute

The Chatsworth Estate Office and Village Institute is a building that originally served as a hotel, constructed around 1776-1777 and attributed to Joseph Pickford. It was enlarged in 1912, likely by Romaine-Walker. The structure features red brick and render with stone dressings, topped by hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs and paired brick lateral stacks. It has a stone plinth, a plain first-floor sill band, a dentil cornice, and a moulded cornice. The building is composed of one, two, and three storeys.

The south elevation includes a 1912 wing on the left and a symmetrical 18th-century section with a layout of 1-3-1 bays. The outer bays are advanced and pedimented, while the central part includes an attic storey. A large central porch made of ashlar is supported by paired Tuscan Doric columns and paired pilasters. The round-arched doorway features stone reindeer heads in the spandrels and above, with paired half-glazed doors and a traceried fanlight. This is flanked by glazing bar sash windows under wedge brick lintels, with three similar windows above and three smaller ones above again.

The lower pedimented wings have broad Venetian windows with moulded ashlar heads and stepped keyblocks for the central lights, along with glazing bar sashes above, arranged in three over three panes. To the left, there is a projecting rendered pavilion with a parapet, plain band, and moulded coping, featuring a central round-arched doorway with a stepped keyblock, flanked by stepped pilasters and a balustraded parapet above, along with plain oculi on either side. To the right, there is a rainwater head dated 1912.

Inside, there is a staircase that spans two storeys, featuring an open string with carved tread ends and two turned balusters per tread. The building was designed to accommodate wealthy travellers and sightseers along the Fourth Duke of Devonshire's new north-south road through the Park.