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

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