Description

SE31NE
3/43
20.1.75

WALTON
THE BALK
(west side, off)
Rose Farmhouse

GV
II

House. Mid C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-cell
plan with lobby-entry at junction of 2nd and 3rd cells and continuous rear
outshut. Doorway with composite jambs has chamfered surround. Above is small
chamfered light. 3 ground-floor windows formerly of 4, 5 and 4 lights have
shallow double-chamfered surrounds (all lack mullions) with continuous dripmould. 1st floor
windows have plain stone surrounds and wooden casements. Coped gables with
ridge stack to left gable and one other at junction of 2nd and 3rd cells. Rear
has 3 small 2-light windows and 2 larger windows to 1st floor which has larger
coursed masonry indicating that the outshut was single-storey originally. Right-
hand return has 4-light window with 3-light above, both under continuous hoodmould.
Left-hand return has doorway with composite jambs and chamfered surround.

Interior: the central housebody has a large depressed Tudor-arched fireplace with
chamfered surround and an unusual arrangement of stop-chamfered beams forming a
lozenge shape. The parlour, on right, has a smaller Tudor-arched fireplace and
2 chamfered spine beams. The 1st cell was the original kitchen with a fire-screen
against the side door with a heck-post indicating that this fireplace had a
fire-hood originally. Timbered-arcade to outshut has 3 posts with jowelled heads
straight-braced to arcade-plate, king-post trusses with single angle struts and
heavily cambered tie beams of large scantling. Some reused timbers from an earlier
structure.
RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE3561516390

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588177

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)