Yorton House

SJ 52 SW 8/1 28.10.60

BROUGHTON C.P. Yorton House (formerly listed as Yorton Villa)

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Shown on O.S. map as Yorton Villa. Farmhouse, now house. Late C18, remodelled and extended c.1830. Stuccoed to front (lined as ashlar) over red brick; hipped slate roof, 2-span to rear. 2 and 3 storeys. Plinth, plat band at first-floor cill level, and dentil brick eaves cornice; pairs of integral rendered brick end stacks (left-hand at rear now demolished). 3 bays; glazing bar sashes, round-arched ground-floor windows with louvred shutters. Pair of central doors with 3 raised and fielded panels each, reeded architrave, segmental fanlight and surround with reeded pilaster strips, moulded imposts, and reeded archivolt with key; flight of 9 stone steps (some replaced with concrete in mid-C20) with low curving flanking walls and square end piers with globe finials. Circa 1830 two-bay addition set back to left with painted dressed sandstone plinth, plat band at first- floor cill level, dentil brick eaves cornice and 16-pane glazing bar sashes. Right-hand return front (of main block) with central ground- and first-floor round-arched windows (axial to central corridor). Rear of main block: 3 storeys. Segmental-headed glazing bar sashes, horizontal sliding to second floor. Interior not inspected. The owner (December 1985) suggests that the main entrance was formerly to the north-east (now a round-arched window) and was moved to its present position c.1830.

Listing NGR: SJ5038222898