Walton Hill Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

Walton Hill Farmhouse and attached farm buildings are a farmhouse and stables dating from the 17th century, with alterations around 1800 and further changes in the early to mid-19th century, along with minor modifications in the mid-20th century. The structure features roughcast on timber-framing or brick, painted brickwork, and English garden wall bond brick, topped with tiled roofs.

The farmhouse is a three-bay, 2½-storey lobby-entry house that has been extended with a three-bay wing on the left, creating an 'L' shape, and a further stable wing beyond, both of which are two storeys high. The main front of the house is roughcast and includes a plinth and plain corner pilasters. A central, 9-panel door is accessed by one stone step and is sheltered by an open wooden porch with pilasters, slim corner columns, arches on three sides, dentils, and a moulded cornice, featuring a groined vault. Each side of the door has a three-light casement window with small panes, Y tracery, a flat head, original iron opening lights, a raised surround, and a hoodmould. Above, there are similar, shallower windows at each end and a two-light window in the center. The eaves are wide and plastered, with a central rendered chimney.

On the right return, there is a plinth with steps leading down to the cellar, a two-light casement window to the attics, and plain barge boards. To the left of the main front, a projecting rendered wing features two-light and three-light casements, with a flat-headed wide opening on the ground floor and plain first-floor eaves with a parapet gable on the left return. The plain rear of the brick stable wing is set back, with a gable facing the road that has a cock made of burnt headers. The opposite face of the stables includes circular openings to the loft and interrupted tie-beam trusses.

Inside the house, there are six-panel doors with dummy fielding, stick-baluster stairs, and two semi-circular niches in the wall. Three main posts with jowelled heads are exposed on the rear first floor. The rear room in the extension features dado panelling, a panelled door to a cupboard with a semi-circular head, a dummy keystone, and shaped shelves. The kitchen has a wide fireplace with a keystone above. The timber-framed lobby-entry house was refaced and extensively altered around 1800, likely in response to the main road being rerouted after 1794.