Walton Hall
WALTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135579
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Walton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WALTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135579
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Walton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALTON HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WALTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3638416263
Details
SE31NE
3/49
11.4.73
WALTON
WALTON PARK
Walton Hall
GV
II*
Country house, now hotel, c1768 (Pevsner p536). Ashlar, stone slate roof.
3 storeys with basement. Classical style. Double-pile. 8-bay symmetrical
facade. Plinth. Facade divided 2-1-2-1-2 by giant channelled pilaster strips
with the centre 4 capped by shallow pediment. Central doorway set between the
4th and 5th bays has elaborate double doors with architrave and carved on lintel
a relief sculpture of an otter with a trout in its mouth (the Waterton crest).
Early C19 3-bay Tuscan single-storey porch in front of the 2 centre bays. 2-pane
sash windows with raised surrounds, eared to ground- and 1st-floor windows. Cornice
and blocking course. Tympanum of pediment has carved achievement of arms with
motto "BETTER KYNDE FREMB THAN FREMB KYEN" (the Waterton family). Hipped roof with
one ridge stack between 5th and 6th bays. Rear: U-shaped with 2-bay projecting
wings. 6 bays. Central gabled porch set between tall round-headed stair windows.
Left wing obscured by modern extension. Right wing has Tuscan porch and doorway
with architrave to left of Venetian window with plain sash windows above. 2 stacks
to ridge, 2 to left wing, one to right wing. Left-hand return of 5 bays. 2 bays
nearest front have some windows as front, other bays have plain raised surrounds.
Right-hand return has single-storey outshut slightly set back with quoin pilaster
strip: basement at lake level has 3 segmental-arched boat entrances (now windows)
9 bays of sash windows. Hipped roof.
Interior: oak-panelled entrance hall probably reused from earlier house on the site
with elaborate Jacobean carved oak overmantel. Stairhall has C19 cantilevered
3-storey open-well staircase with turned balusters. Landings at each floor level
have original doorways with architraves, fluted friezes, dentil cornice and 6-panel
doors with raised-and-fielded panels. The stairwindow has wooden fluted surround
with imposts and rusticated stone voussoirs, the keystone carved with the Waterton
crest in relief. The outshut has 5-bay fish-bone king-post roof with hip and
windlass formerly for lifting goods from basement. Spectacularly sited on an island.
The C19 home of the famous explorer Charles Waterton who created perhaps the earliest
bird sanctuary in Britain on the island.
Listing NGR: SE3638416263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342353
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 536
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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