Tower House And Former Stables And Barn Adjoining

A late 18th-century house with adjoining stables and barn, originally part of Halton Hall. The house is constructed of sandstone rubble with slate roofs. The three-story north facade, overlooking the road, features a battlemented parapet and is three bays wide. The ground floor has two sashed windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds, located in bays two and three. The first floor windows are sashed with glazing bars, with moulded architraves; the outer two have cyma cornices, and the central one has a moulded pediment. The second-floor windows have plain stone surrounds, with the outer two windows blank and the central window being a sashed window with glazing bars. The east wall of the tower has a sashed window with glazing bars in a plain stone surround on the first floor, and a six-pane sash in a similar surround on the second floor. A two-bay, two-story portion of the house extends southwards under the same roof as the adjoining stables, with openings having plain reveals in the east wall. One window is a sashed window with glazing bars. The west wall of the tower is blank except for a ground-floor window with plain reveals and a first-floor window with a plain stone surround. Lean-to extensions are present at the rear. The west wall of the former stables has two wide entrances with modern doors; the southern door has dressed jambs. Between these entrances are two doors with plain reveals. A wide, segmental-arched entrance is located towards the southern end, alongside a door with plain reveals. A smaller, three-story, battlemented tower is situated at the south end, with a window with plain reveals on its first floor and an opening with a pointed arch on the second floor, which has been filled with stone openings for a dovecote.