Listed buildings in Walton, Cumbria

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Walton is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains nine listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Walton, and is otherwise rural. The listed buildings comprise houses and associated structures, and a church with a hearse house in the churchyard.

Walton, Cumbria village in the United Kingdom

Walton is a village and civil parish in the far north of Cumbria, England. It is located 10 miles (16 km) from Carlisle and is about 2 miles (3 km) north of Brampton, on the north bank of the River Irthing. Nearby villages include Newtown, Banks and Lanercost.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

City of Carlisle City & non-metropolitan district in England

The City of Carlisle is a local government district of Cumbria, England, with the status of a city and non-metropolitan district. It is named after its largest settlement, Carlisle, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Brampton and Longtown, as well as outlying villages including Dalston, Scotby and Wetheral. The city has a population of 107,524. and an area of 1,039.97 square kilometres (402 sq mi), making it the largest city in England by area.

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Grade Criteria [1]
II* Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
II Buildings of national importance and special interest

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Name and locationPhotographDateNotesGrade
White Hill
54°59′09″N2°43′30″W / 54.98573°N 2.72506°W / 54.98573; -2.72506 (White Hill)
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1611The house was extended in the 19th century. The original wall at the rear is in sandstone, and the side and front walls are in brick; the roof is in Welsh slate. There are two storeys and two bays, with a single-storey two-bay extension to the right. The doorway has a stone surround and a lintel containing the date flanked by coats of arms. The windows are sashes with flat brick arches and stone sills, and there is a fire window. [2]
Orchard House
54°58′22″N2°45′02″W / 54.97269°N 2.75049°W / 54.97269; -2.75049 (Orchard House)
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This originated as a single-storey cottage, and in the 19th century a storey was added and it became a public house; it has since been a private house. The house is rendered, and has stone dressings and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and four bays. The doorway has a 20th-century wooden surround, the original doorway having been converted into a window. The windows are sashes with stone surrounds. [3]
Sandysike
54°58′07″N2°45′28″W / 54.96866°N 2.75771°W / 54.96866; -2.75771 (Sandysike)
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1760The house was extended in about 1820. It is stuccoed on a chamfered plinth, and has quoins, a plain cornice, and a slate roof with coped gables. There are two storeys and three bays, with a two-storey, two-bay extension to the left, and a single-bay single-storey bay with a hipped roof to the right. The doorway has a moulded architrave, an ornamental frieze, and a dentilled moulded triangular pediment on consoles. The windows are sashes with plain surrounds. [4]
Walls and gardener's house, Castlesteads
54°57′48″N2°45′47″W / 54.96346°N 2.76295°W / 54.96346; -2.76295 (Walls and gardener's house, Castlesteads)
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The walls enclose a garden, and are built directly on top of and on the same alignment as a Roman fort. Incorporated in the southeast wall is a sandstone house that has two storeys and one bays and a pyramidal roof. [5]
Walton High Rigg
54°58′59″N2°44′27″W / 54.98317°N 2.74073°W / 54.98317; -2.74073 (Walton High Rigg)
Walton High Rigg - geograph.org.uk - 445368.jpg
A sandstone farmhouse with quoins, a dentilled cornice, and a green slate roof with coped gables. There are two storeys and four bays. The doorway has an alternate block surround, and the sash windows have plain surrounds. [6]
Castlesteads
54°57′43″N2°45′52″W / 54.96185°N 2.76457°W / 54.96185; -2.76457 (Castlesteads)
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A country house in sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with pilaster angle strips, a string course, a modillioned and dentilled cornice, a parapet, and a slate roof. The house has two storeys, a central bock of seven bays that is flanked by L-shaped wings, with two bays to the front and five bays on the sides. The doorway has engaged Doric columns, a plain entablature and a dentilled triangular pediment. The windows are sashes. In the main block they have plain surrounds. In the ground floor of the wings, they are round-headed with decorated friezes, and in the upper floor they have surrounds of pilaster strips and rusticated blocks, moulded triangular pediments, and sills on consoles. At the rear (now the entrance front), are apsidal staircase projections. [7] [8]
Hearse house
54°58′22″N2°44′52″W / 54.97285°N 2.74779°W / 54.97285; -2.74779 (Hearse house)
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The hearse house is in the churchyard of St Mary's Church. It is in calciferous sandstone, with quoins and a slate roof. The building has one storey and one bay. Above the door is a large stone lintel, and there is a round-headed window on the left side with impost blocks and a keystone. [9] [10]
Vicarage
54°58′23″N2°44′50″W / 54.97317°N 2.74730°W / 54.97317; -2.74730 (Vicarage)
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1838The vicarage is in brick and has a slate roof with coped gables. There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway has a moulded stone architrave, and the sash windows have flat brick arches and stone sills. [11]
St Mary's Church
54°58′22″N2°44′53″W / 54.97271°N 2.74795°W / 54.97271; -2.74795 (St Mary's Church)
St Mary's Church, Walton.jpeg
1869–70The church, designed by Paley and Austin, stands on the site of an earlier medieval church. It is in sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with quoins, string courses, and a slate roof with coped gables and a cross finial. The church consists of a nave, a north aisle, a chancel, and a northwest tower incorporating a porch. The tower has three stages, a north entrance with a pointed arch, a west stair tower, and a pyramidal roof. The windows are lancets. [9] [12]

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Historic England is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is tasked with protecting the historical environment of England by preserving and listing historic buildings, ancient monuments and advising central and local government.

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England’s official list of buildings, monuments, parks and gardens, wrecks, battlefields and World Heritage Sites. It is maintained by Historic England and brings together these different designations as a single resource even though they vary in the type of legal protection afforded to each. Conservation areas do not appear on the NHLE since they are designated by the relevant local planning authority.

Nikolaus Pevsner German-born British scholar

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

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