Walton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. House. 5 related planning applications.
Walton House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-iron-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Normanton and Hemsworth MP: Jon Trickett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Walton House, 187, Shay Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 353 168
- Coordinates
- 53.64726, -1.46717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walton House is a large house built in the late 18th century, with a late 19th-century extension. It features ashlar and hammer-dressed stone, topped with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a five-bay facade, with the fifth bay containing two first-floor windows. There is a plinth, and the central three bays project slightly forward. The entrance has a doorway with an architrave and a glazed fanlight, accessed by a shallow flight of three stone steps. This entrance is flanked by tripartite sash windows, which are supported by four giant engaged Ionic columns. These columns hold up an ashlar frieze and a shallow pitched pediment, with the tympanum decorated with a carved festoon panel. The first bay also has a tripartite sash window. All first-floor windows have plain raised surrounds and 12-pane sashes. The building features an ashlar frieze, cornice, and blocking course, along with a hipped roof that has two ridge stacks and one end stack on the right.
To the left, there is a later extension with a lower roof that is not of special interest. At the rear, the central three bays also project slightly and feature an open porch with ball finials, an arched stair window above, and a blocking course with three blind recesses. The rear windows are plainer than those at the front, with projecting sills; some retain 18-pane sashes while others have been altered.
Local climate
Walton House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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