80, Walton Street, Walton on the Hill

House, at one time divided into two cottages. A circa 1600 house aligned roughly west to east, which was extended to the north-east by 1877 and was refurbished, including a south-east extension, after 1914 and before 1935.

The original part is timber-framed, clad in render, with an early 20th-century gabled tiled roof featuring a central brick chimneystack and a further brick chimneystack on the east side. The northern extension is partly of painted brick.

The original plan was a two-storey four-bay lobby entrance house of unequal bays measuring from west to east 2.30m, 3.10m, 0.95m and 2.50m. The narrow penultimate eastern bay was originally a smoke bay with a chimney inserted probably in the late 17th century, and the original staircase was probably in the north eastern corner. A further external chimneystack was added to the east either in the later 17th century because the narrow smoke bay precluded back-to-back chimneystacks, or in the early 19th century when the property was divided into two cottages. This plan was modified by 1877 by the addition of a kitchen to the north and was further modified by 1935 with an extension to the south-east including a staircase-hall.

The south or entrance front has four irregularly-spaced windows, all early 20th-century wooden mullioned windows with leaded lights. The upper floor eastern two bays have hipped dormers, and the ground floor projects with a six-light mullioned window and a recessed porch to the right with an oak early 20th-century studded door. The set-back western section has two tripartite windows to the first floor and a similar window to the ground floor but a four-light canted bay on the left-hand side. The west side elevation is mainly concealed by a weather-boarded lean-to outbuilding. The north or rear elevation has one 19th-century mullioned casement window to the upper floor of the western half and two smaller windows and a 20th-century French window on the ground floor. The eastern part projects with a two-storey gabled painted brick section with a cambered-headed casement with a triple projecting window below adjoining a penticed doorcase. The eastern bay has a penticed roof to ground level and a further casement window. The east side elevation has one small 20th-century casement lighting the staircase.

The front entrance leads into a small early 20th-century staircase hall with access into the eastern end bay of the circa 1600 building. This room has a spine beam with a one-inch chamfer and square floor joists, an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer and some 20th-century brickwork and exposed wall frame to the original end and rear walls, including a curved wall brace. The adjoining narrow bay was originally a smoke bay with a lobby entrance. It leads into the western two bays, originally separate rooms, now one large room. This has a 17th-century open fireplace of Reigate stone with a wooden bressumer. The penultimate bay has a spine beam with one-inch chamfers and lambs-tongue stops and similar floor joists. The original partition between this room and the end bay has been removed leaving exposed mortices, and the end bay has a similar chamfered spine beam but the floor joists are plain. The early 20th-century eastern staircase leads to the upper floor. The two western bays, originally two rooms, are now one large room with a small fireplace and a cupboard recess adjoining, with old floorboards and exposed queen posts to the partition wall. There are similar queen posts to the upper partition wall between the two end bays. The roof has exposed purlins and slightly curved wind-braces. The wall frame to the rear wall has upright posts, a midrail and some studs. There was probably a bacon loft originally in the smoke bay. The eastern bay of the original building has an exposed wall frame with a midrail, diagonal braces and queen posts. There are mortices for original mullioned windows in this bay. The adjoining room to the east has weathered timbers, proving it was originally an external wall, and a series of curved carpenter's assembly marks. The open fireplaces contain apotropaic marks, and there are a number of early 20th-century ledged and plank doors.