Walwick Hall

HUMSHAUGH WALWICK NY 9170 SW 14/279 Walwick Hall

GV II

House, C18 incorporating earlier fabric, extended early C19. East front and porch tooled ashlar, south front squared stone, coursed rubble to rear; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Irregular plan. South front 2 storeys, 4 bays; porch in third bay has pair of 10-pane fixed windows. Fielded panelled double doors, with 4-pane overlight, on right return and 15-pane fixed window on left return, all in architraves. Moulded cornice and blocking course. 12-pane sash windows, except C20 small-paned casement on ground floor left. Roof hipped to left; 2 stepped-and-corniced ridge stacks and similar stack at left end. To right, projecting wing truncated 1956: 2-bay inner return shows C20 paired 6-pane casements with 4-pane sashes in architraves above.

East (garden) front 3 + 3 bays. Left part has glazed door, in architrave with pediment, between right bays; at left a full-height canted bay with pyramidal roof. Eaves cornice broken forward around bay. Right part, slightly set back, has central glazed door in eared architrave with cornice. All windows renewed 12-pane sashes. Roof of each part hipped to right; stepped-and-corniced left end and 3 ridge stacks.

Interior: Internal wall 0.95 metre thick, at rear of entrance hall. Open-well cut-string stair with stick balusters, moulded wreathed and ramped handrail, urn-on-vase newel. Kitchen fireplace with chamfered segmental arch.

Listing NGR: NY9012870602