Walshaw

Walshaw is a building featuring brick timberwork with stone dressings and a plain tiled roof, designed in a free 'Jacobethan' style. It is built against a slope, creating a continuous range that includes outbuildings and a service wing at the lower part, while the main part of the house is situated at the upper end. This main block is two stories high with attics and has a four-window range. To the left, there is a wide gabled wing that advances, and the roof is half hipped at the right end. The entrance is located to the left of center, with a doorway and two windows beside it forming an arcade beneath a wide segmentally arched loggia that features relief decoration on the parapet. The loggia includes a mullioned and transomed window as well as French doors that are recessed.

In the left gable, the upper storey is heavily jettied over a stone mullioned and transomed bay window, with a three-light mullioned and transomed window in the upper storey. To the right of the entrance, there are mullioned windows with three or four lights on each floor, and the lines of the attic window's mullions continue as ribbed brickwork panels with plaster infill in the gable apex. Narrow windows are grouped in the right bay of the main block. Adjacent to this, and stepped down to a lower level, is a single cross-gabled range featuring a mullioned and transomed window on the lower floor and an oriel window above, beneath a strongly jettied timber gable. The lower half of this gable is half-timbered, and a coach house range is located beyond.

The rear elevation mirrors the front, with three advanced gables that mark the principal rooms of the house, each featuring mullioned and transomed windows on both floors. The apexes of the two lower gables display distinctive brick and plaster panelling similar to that on the front elevation. A covered way at ground floor level, with continuous glazing, connects the left gable to the lower gabled cross wings down the slope. The tower angle of the lowest gable has narrow windows, a ribbed brick cornice band, and a swept roof that terminates in a cupola.

The interior has not been inspected, but it is reported to contain a galleried staircase in the main hall.