| Description | Manor Farm, Walton. Now demolished. Originally a farmhouse dated 1716.
Manor Farm was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1978 possibly as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. The assessment occurred during the course of demolition. The photographic images and sketch plan produced by the assessment are held by WYAAS (Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1978). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone farmhouse, dated 1716. It is of two and a half storeys and 'L' shaped on plan. The main front faces west and has a central door, with an inscribed lintel reading ‘T H A 1716'. Details of the window on this front however suggest a later date; they lack mullions and have simple square cut lintels and jambs.
The western range contains the two main rooms of the house, the larger of them entered directly from the main door. Both rooms are heated by gable stacks. Service rooms are housed in the rear range: there is a large kitchen, again heated by a gable stack, with a small unheated room, a stair up to the first floor and steps down to a cellar. Some window in this range have tall light and played mullions. Internal walls all appear to be of brick.
The roof is of simple principal rafters, lacking trusses'.
(Giles, C. (WYAS/RCHME). 1978. 'Manor Farm, Walton').
The site now lies as woodland scrub (https://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed 16/12/2013). |