Walton House And Attached Walls

Walton House is a house dating probably from the 16th century, with substantial alterations in the 1790s and later, and a late 19th-century rear wing. The structure is timber-framed with brick cladding, ashlar dressings, and a roof of graduated slate and tile, with brick stacks. It is a double-depth plan house, with its front elevation facing to the right.

The house is in a Georgian style. It is three storeys high with a four-window range. It features a plain plinth, a 1st-floor sill band and a top cornice. The roof is covered in graduated slate and has a hipped return to the left. The central entrance is marked by a doorcase with fluted Tuscan pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment, leading to a door of four fielded panels and two flush panels within panelled reveals. The ground floor has tripartite windows with Tuscan colonnettes, friezes, cornices, and 4:12:4-pane sashes. A window to the left of centre has a wedge lintel with ogee shaping, scrolls and acanthus, above a 12-pane sash; similar windows are found on the 1st floor. The 2nd floor windows have sills and 6-pane sashes. The right end has a projecting stack with two recessed panels featuring a lozenge pattern and two niches at the top.

An 18th-century wall extends approximately 23.5 metres to the right. A stone-coped brick wall, dating from the 18th century, runs along the left return and continues approximately 37 metres to the right. The rear of the building has a steeper roof pitch tiled, a central timber-framed stair wing with a gable and a leaded window, a small wing to the right, and a late 19th-century wing of single storey with an attic to the left.

The interior retains timber-framed walls with close studding and a middle rail, along with stop-chamfered beams and joists. A room to the left includes a large fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressummer and a blocked window to the exterior, retaining a chamfered mullion and original leaded glazing. Another room has a dragon beam. A room to the right contains an Adam-style fireplace, and a closed well stair has an upper handrail and carpenters' marks. A 1st-floor room to the left features an ashlar fireplace with a Tudor arch and long spandrels, while a room to the right has a large 17th-century fireplace with a bolection-moulded architrave, frieze, and cornice.

Walton House is described as a good example of a 16th-century house that, despite later cladding, retains many original features.