Walton Court

Walton Court is a two-storey building with a central range, a gabled crosswing, and a further extension under a catslide roof. There is a rear gabled wing and an attached one-and-a-half storey range to the west. The front elevations have been refaced in coursed rubble. The main range features a crude drip-course that rises over the ground floor windows and a tall ogee-gabled dormer with stone cappings. A weathervane at the apex has the inscription "TH 1700". The east and west refacings are likely of a later date and are made of better quality rubble blocks with voussoir lintels and a blind gable lunette. The rear elevations reveal exposed square-panel timber framing, and in the gable end of the low west wing, there is a full cruck truss with a yoke, collar, and wall ties. The roof is slate-covered with modern bargeboards. There are three tall rubble stacks; two dating from around 1700 have cushion caps, while the massive end stack on the rear wing has vertical ribbed detailing but has lost its cushion cap, as shown in RCHM photographs. All windows are modern timber casements that were inserted in 1984, and there is a modern open porch with a slated canopy.

Inside, the roof trusses are exposed in the attics, featuring much re-used timber, including parts of a smoke blackened arch-braced and cusped cruck truss in the east wing, likely taken from the dairy wing. The 15th-century cruck-framed dairy and front parlour have wide chamfered, step-stopped beams that are partially hacked. The central range contains a hallway with a square-cut stopped beam and a further massive chamfered beam. The east crosswing has a single ground-floor room with a cross-beamed arrangement of poorer quality. The rear wing features a dog-leg stair from around 1700 that leads off from the hallway behind keyblock arched openings. The stair has a moulded newel post that rises to the underside of the hall beam, with a chamfered post above that has scroll stops. The stair also has a closed string, turned symmetrical balusters, and a moulded handrail. Period doors are found throughout, with some being boarded and fitted with thumb-latches, while others are early 18th-century two-panel doors. There is a wall cupboard in the hall with shouldered panelled doors and butterfly hinges, and the ground floor is laid with large stone flags.