Listed Building record MDR24151 - Boundary Wall and VR Postbox, Former Whitworth Estate Garden, Whitworth Road, Darley Dale

Boundary wall and VR postbox, former Whitworth Estate Garden, Whitworth Road, Darley Dale, built c1870. From the National Heritage List for England: 'DARLEY DALE 668/0/10040 GARDEN BOUNDARY WALLS TO FORMER WHITWO 04-MAR-03 RTH ESTATE GARDEN ON WHITWORTH ROAD, F OGGS HILL AND BENT LANE, INCLUDING VR POST BOX TO SW (Formerly listed as: GARDEN BOUNDARY WALLS TO FORMER WHITWO RTH ESTATE GARDEN ON WHITWORTH ROAD, F ROGGS HILL AND BENT LANE, INCLUDING VR POST BOX TO SW) II DARLEY DALE 668/0/10040 Garden Boundary Walls to Former Whitwo 04-MAR-03 rth Estate Garden on Whitworth Road, F oggs Hill and Bent Lane including VR post box to SW GV II Garden boundary walls. Circa 1870s; possibly by 1872 by T. Roger Smith or 1879 by E. M. Barry, who both remodelled Stancliffe Hall for Sir Joseph Whitworth, industrialist; said to be dated 1883 at eastern end. Derbyshire grit stone, dressed, coursed and rock-faced, with saddle-back coping also rock-faced. Curved corners and at entrance the walls sweep up to rock-faced grit stone piers with caps. At the north end the wall is lower and formerly supported iron railings, now missing. VR post box is set into the south west corner. Together with the east garden boundary wall of Stancliffe Hall these walls are a most conspicuous feature of Darley Hillside.' (1)