| Description | Chase Colt, Farndale and Ingle Nook, Walton in Ainsty. Row of cottages which may probably originated as a 17th century house.
This row of cottages Hall Park Road, in the historic core of Walton village 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).
The images depict a main building range in a linear plan with a cross wing at the southern end. The building is two storeys and is built of magnesian limestone with a pan tile roof. The front elevation faces west onto Hall Park Road. The main range is approximately four bays long. The range now consists of three cottages which either originated as, or incorporates the remains, of an earlier house. The front elevation shows signs of several phases of masonry. The ground floor windows have flat lintels. The first floor windows have flat arches with stone voussoir.
Between the first and second bay of the front elevation is doorway of possible 17th century origins. It has heavy quoined jambs and a deep lintel with hood mould cut with a shallow Tudor arch. The surrounds is chamfered. The positioning of the doorway is adjacent to an internal chimney stack, making, if the stack is an original feature, a lobby entrance plan. To the right of the doorway is a recessed three light mullioned window and a small two light mullioned window with hood mould. This second window has the appearance of a fire window but bears no relation to the current arrangement of visible chimney stacks. Again, these have chamfered surrounds and mullions. The right of this is an entrance covered by a modern porch. The street facing gable of the cross wing has a recessed three light window with chamfered mullions on the ground floor (possibly an inserted feature), with a flat arched single light window in the first floor. A break in the masonry is evident suggesting the cross wing is a later addition which is present c.1850 (OS 1st edition 6'. Sheet 189). The second chimney stack occurs as a ridge stack at the southern end of the main range.
There are architectural and plan elements that suggest this building has 17th century origins, possibly as a single house. If there is a fire window, there may also have been a fire bay with hood, a feature which may predate the 17th century, but this is conjecture. 18th or 19th century alterations, possibly cottage conversions, are also evident.
(Lunn, K.R. 2013. Description of Chase Colt, Farndale and Ingle Nook, Walton in Ainsty based on photographic images. Description found in digital record only and not on file at WYAAS). |