Walton Hall (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Lower Allithwaite.
In the historic county of Lancashire.
Modern Authority of Cumbria.
1974 county of Cumbria.
Medieval County of Lancashire North of the Sands.

OS Map Grid Reference: SD36837889
Latitude 54.20185° Longitude -2.96986°

Walton Hall has been described as a Fortified Manor House although is doubtful that it was such.

There are no visible remains.

Description

"The manor of Walton is recorded in Domesday Book... and a family surnamed Walton held a ploughland there till 1342 when it was transferred to the prior of Cartmel. Thomas Preston held Walton Hall in 1508-9 paying a free rent of 3s. The heir of Richard Palfreyman held some land there by a free rent of 1d Walton Hall now forms part of the Holker estate of Lord Richard Cavendish" (VCH).
The oldest part of WALTON HALL is at the west end of the house and is a two storied building of rubble masonry with roughly dressed quoins. The windows and doorways are plain and not dateable but the large cylindrical chimney is typical of 16th/17th cent farmhouses in this region.
Mr. FEARON, the occupier, confirmed the name as WALTON HALL. According to him the later part of the house was built in 1716.
The building is in good condition and in use as a farmhouse (F1 EG 23-JUN-58).
Walton Hall was formerly a mansion now a farmhouse, reputed to be the residence of William Walto, Prior of Cartmel Abbey (Perriam and Robinson 1998). (PastScape)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 39593.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 2428.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Books
- Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 373
  Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), 1914, VCH Lancashire Vol. 8 p. 277 online transcription

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