Description

STONE

SJ9033 STAFFORD ROAD, Walton
651-1/7/73 (West side)
09/03/49 No.71
Walton House and attached walls

GV II*

House and attached walls to west and north. Probably C16 with
1790s and later cladding and late C19 rear wing. Timber frame
with brick cladding, ashlar dressings; graduated slate and
tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth plan; front to
right. Georgian style. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Plain
plinth, 1st floor sill band and top cornice; graduated slate
roof. Entrance to left of centre has doorcase with fluted
Tuscan pilasters, entablature and pediment; door of 4 fielded
panels and 2 flush panels in panelled reveals. Ground floor
end windows are tripartite, with Tuscan colonnettes, friezes
and cornices, 4:12:4-pane sashes; ground floor window to left
of centre has wedge lintel wiht ogee shaping, scrolls and
acanthus over 12-pane sash, similar windows to 1st floor; 2nd
floor has windows with sills and 6-pane sashes. Cross-axial
stack and projecting end stack to right, which has 2 recessed
panels with lozenge pattern and 2 niches to top; roof hipped
to left return. C18 wall extends approximately 23.5m. to
right. Street elevation, left return, incorporates C18
stone-coped brick wall which continues approximately 37m. to
right; C19 brick cladding and windows with wedge lintels. Rear
has steeper roof pitch with tile; central timber-framed stair
wing with gable and leaded window; small wing to right and
late C19 wing of single-storey with attic to left.
INTERIOR: timber-framed walls: close studding with middle
rail; stop-chamfered beams and joists; room to left has large
fireplace with stop-chamfered bressummer and window blocked to
exterior with chamfered mullion and original leaded glazing;
room to rear has dragon beam; room to right has Adam style
fireplace; closed well stair has upper handrail, carpenters'
marks; 1st floor room to left has ashlar fireplace with Tudor
arch and long spandrels; room to right has large C17 fireplace
with bolection-moulded architrave, frieze and cornice. A good
example of a C16 house which, although given later cladding,
retains many original features.

Listing NGR: SJ9023833135

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545234

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair