Horton House Including Garden Boundary Wall To North East And South East

Horton House is a house dating from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of red brick with blue brick diapering and stone dressings, and it has a steeply-pitched plain tile roof with bands of fishscale-shaped tiles. The roof features gable ends with ornate pierced bargeboards, pendants, and finials. The house has large axial, gable end, and lateral multi-flue stacks with diagonal shafts and star caps. It follows a central stairhall plan with service rooms to the west. The architectural style is Victorian Gothic.

The north front is asymmetrical, with a projecting gable to the left of centre, which incorporates a gabled porch with a 4-centred arch stone doorway and arms above. To the left of the gable is a large lateral stack, and to the right are two windows and a 4-centred arch service door, leading to a short gabled wing. The south garden front is also asymmetrical, with a six-window range, a gable to the left, and a projecting gable to the right, the latter featuring a stone canted bay window with a crenellated parapet. The east end has a gable at the right and a large lateral stack to the left. The windows are stone mullion windows with sashes, in single, double, and triple-light configurations.

The interior retains much of the original joinery, including panelled doors, window shutters, and a large open-well staircase with octagonal newels with finials and pendants, moulded and stick balusters, and a panelled dado. It also features moulded plaster ceiling cornices and light roses.

The house is accompanied by a contemporary garden boundary wall to the north-east and south-east, constructed of red brick with blue brick diapering, saddle-back coping, flat buttresses, gate piers with cross-gabled stone caps, and 20th-century gates. Horton House was the home of William Sharp FRS (1805-1896), a surgeon and physician who practised in Bradford and later assisted in establishing science teaching at Rugby School.