Walton House

Walton House is a late 18th-century house located on Walton New Road in Walton. The building is constructed of Flemish bond brown brick with a graded grey slate roof and two brick chimneys. It is two storeys high and originally had three windows, with smaller recessed wings to the sides. A two-column Ionic portico fronts the house, with a painted stone plinth, and stone-coped shaped gables. A large oriel window is situated in the right-hand gable wall. The lower-floor windows have been replaced with large panes of glass, while the upper floor retains original 12-pane sashes, all set beneath gauged-brick flat arches. Small-pane windows are in the end gables. The front door features a vertical panel on each side of a central recessed moulding externally, and six panels internally, accompanied by a semicircular fanlight without bars. Inside, original six-panel doors are set within moulded and panelled cases. The drawing and dining rooms feature panelled embrasures and bases to window openings, and both rooms contain particularly fine ornamented plasterwork. An open-string dog-leg staircase rises through both storeys, featuring a mahogany rail and square balusters.