| Description | Walton Old Hall, Walton in Ainsty. Manor house rebuilt in early 18th century on site of ancestral home.
'Manor house. Rebuilt early C18 by Nicholas or John Fairfax (Speight, p.395); extended later (Speight p.387); extensive C20 alterations. Irregularly coursed magnesian limestone rubble, stone slate roof. L shaped plan: 2 storeys, 1:3 windows to 1st floor on north side. Quoins; double chamfered, mullioned windows (mostly renewed). Gabled wing projecting on left has 4 light window beneath an old, transomed 4 light window; main range set back on right has a plain doorway on left of a 3 light window and small lean to addition beyond; 3 light window to 1st floor flanked by 2 light windows. Stone stacks to eaves on left and to ridge of hipped main range roof on right. C20 porch on south side flanked by 5 light windows to left and 2 and 3 light windows on right. Left return: lean to beneath an original 3 light window (restored).
Interior not inspected. Built on the site of the ancestral home of the Fairfax family known to have lived here since the 14th century; the descendants including Robert Fairfax, composer, c1500 (previous list description) and Sir Guy Fairfax, prominent Yorkist in the Wars of the Roses. Used as a girls' boarding school in the C19. H. Speight, Lower Wharfedale, 1902. NMR (full photographic record of house prior to C20 renovation)'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 02/09/1952. Date amended 08/02/1988. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1135036. Web site accessed 19/12/2013).
Walton Old Hall was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Peter Thornborrow (WYAS) in 1988. The photographic image produced by the assessment is held by WYAAS (Thornborrow, P.H. (WYAAS). 1988). |