Walton Hall

Walton Hall is a building constructed between 1836 and 1838, with alterations and extensions made from 1869 to 1870. It is built from stone-dressed brown brick and features graded slate roofs. The garden front, which faces east, is 2½ storeys tall and has two wide bays that are nearly symmetrical. It is adorned with two crow-stepped gables and pinnacled octagonal buttresses at the center and each corner. The lower storey includes a canted bay window on the right and a square bay window on the left, both made of stone with ovolo mullions. Above each bay window, there are three windows (one light, two lights, one light) and a lancet window in the attic of each gable.

The entrance front, located to the right, is also 2½ storeys tall but has an asymmetrical design with four bays. It features a broad, windowless, projecting gable on the left, a narrow two-storey recessed bay with windows, and a projecting two-storey porch that has shaped double doors made of oak, each with 11 panels, set within a four-centred arched stone opening. Above this is a semicircular stone oriel. The right bay has a recessed upper storey. To the right of the entrance, there is a four-stage clock tower, dating from around 1870, which has a stone clock stage topped with a shaped lead-roofed cupola and a large weather vane. This clock tower is connected to the Hall by a screen wall that features blank Tudor windows. The left front of the building has been significantly altered but includes an ornate mullioned and transomed staircase window with leaded glazing and some stained glass; most windows on all fronts have had their leading removed.

Inside, the hall is panelled in oak and features a quasi-Elisabethan moulded plaster ceiling. It has round-arched double doors that are very tall and heavily detailed leading to the staircase. The oak staircase has divided return flights, and there are large, heavily decorated panelled doors leading to the upper rooms. The grand joinery work from around 1870 contrasts with the more delicately treated gold and white plaster panels, likely from 1838, that adorn the shaped ceiling above the staircase.