Croft Holdings

SE44NW WALTON MAIN STREET LS23 (north side)

2/134 Croft Holdings 6.3.84

GV II

House. Probably early C17; encased C18; altered and extended C20. Timber framing encased in stone now cement-rendered'. C20 cement-tile roof, 2 storeys; 3-bay, lobby-entrance plan with aisles to rear of bays 2 and 3 and C20 wing to rear of bay 1. C20 porch to right of bay 2 beneath an exposed section of wall post; another exposed wall post divides bays 1 and 2; C20 3- light casement windows to each bay, that to lst-floor bay 3 is smaller. Wall plate exposed over bays 1 and 2; corbelled brick kneelers at each end. Stone end stack on right; brick ridge stack over porch. Right return: exposed tie- beam and wall-plate ends morticed for corner posts. Interior: not inspected. RCHM survey notes 2 arcade posts with one surviving curved brace to the arcade plate; spine beam and common joists in bay 1 of C17 character; light- scantling, common-rafter roof with halved collars. The survey expresses uncertainty as to whether the house was an earlier open hall with floored end bays or whether (by virtue of the C17-style floor in bay 1) it was built as 2-storey throughout in the C17. RCHM recorded building file No 31957.

Listing NGR: SE4425847761