Walton Old Hall

SE44NW WALTON SMIDDY HILL LS23 (west side)

2/135 Walton Old Hall 1 2.9.52 (formerly listed as Walton Hall)

GV II

Manor house. Rebuilt early C18 by Nicholas or John Fairfax (Speight, p.395); extended later (Speight p.387); extensive C20 alterations. Irregularly- coursed magnesian limestone rubble, stone slate roof. L-shaped plan: 2 storeys, 1:3 windows to 1st floor on north side. Quoins; double-chamfered, mullioned windows (mostly renewed). Gabled wing projecting on left has 4- light window beneath an old, transomed 4-light window; main range set back on right has a plain doorway on left of a 3-light window and small lean-to addition beyond; 3-light window to 1st floor flanked by 2-light windows. Stone stacks to eaves on left and to ridge of hipped main-range roof on right. C20 porch on south side flanked by 5-light windows to left and 2- and 3-light windows on right. Left return: lean-to beneath an original 3-light window (restored). Interior not inspected. Built on the site of the ancestral home of the Fairfax family known to have lived here since the 14th century; the descendants including Robert Fairfax, composer, c1500 (previous list description) and Sir Guy Fairfax, prominent Yorkist in the Wars of the Roses. Used as a girls' boarding school in the C19. H. Speight,Lower Wharfedale, 1902. NMR (full photographic record of house prior to C20 renovation).

Listing NGR: SE4425247695