Welton Hall

Welton Hall is a farmhouse with a ruined tower, dating back to the 14th century, with significant alterations in the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries. The house was initially a hall house, with a datestone of 1614 indicating later development. The tower, situated to the right, incorporates Roman stone and has a two-story design with a tunnel-vaulted basement. Its roof is missing. One 14th-century first-floor window remains, featuring a cusped head, while most other windows are square-headed with chamfered surrounds. Ground floor masonry aligns with the wing on the left, which represents the original hall range and contains a blocked 14th-century window in its gable end. A later building, likely from the 16th century, partially covers the gable end of this hall range.

The entrance front is on the left return side, featuring a doorway dated WW 1614, protected by a hoodmould and displaying an angular, flattened Tudor arch with a finely-moulded surround. Above the doorway, within a moulded surround, is a square inset panel. To the left of the doorway are a pair of 2- and 3-light windows, also under hoodmoulds, with ovolo-moulded mullions. The rear of the front wing projects to the left and has 3- and 4-light windows, one of which is blocked, with plain chamfers and no hoodmoulds. Two 2-light windows of a similar style are present on the stair projection to the right of the door.

The garden front features a 5-sided, 2-story mullion-and-transom bay window with ovolo mouldings and a moulded string above each floor. To the right of this is a 2-bay section with an early 19th-century door and 16-pane sashes in flat raised surrounds. An original 14th-century window is visible above the door on the left, and another is blocked beside it. On the left return side, a large external stack originally rested on corbels at first-floor level but was extended to ground level and given a crow-stepped top during the 16th or 17th century.

Inside the hall range, located to the left of the tower, a blocked 14th-century doorway with a pointed arch and continuous chamfer can be found on the first floor, along with a large blocked 14th-century window with a segmental head on the gable end, positioned below a smaller window visible from the exterior. These features suggest a former first-floor hall. A square stone newel stair has doorways with chamfered surrounds and broach stops, rising into the roof space and implying a vanished 3-story wing. The ground floor of the hall wing includes a large 17th-century fireplace with a flattened Tudor arch, a moulded surround and triangles in the spandrels, alongside old beams.