Historical Buildings Around Walton le Dale
Walton le Dale is a large village to south of Preston, and the River Ribble, in the South Ribble district of Lancashire. In the area close to Walton le Dale are the also the settlements of Higher Walton, Walton Summit, Bamber Bridge and Gregson Lane. This area contains thirty-four Historical Buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, six are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area is partly residential and partly rural. Its listed buildings include churches and associated structures, houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, public houses and a war memorial.
The ‘Grades# are explained as follows:
- Grade II* are Particularly important buildings of more than special interest
Grade II are Buildings of national importance and special interest
Listed Buildings & associated structures in Walton le Dale
The following is a list of places included on the Historic England register in and around Walton le Dale. They are listed alphabetically:
- All Saints Church
- Arrowsmith House
- Bank Head Farmhouse
- Black Brook House
- Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- Church of Our Lady and St. Patrick
- Cooper House Farmhouse
- Cooper House Farm Barn
- Crow Trees
- Higher Seed Lee Farmhouse
- Higher Shuttling Fields Farmhouse
- Lime Kiln Farmhouse
- New House Farmhouse
- Old Lemon House
- Old Lemon House Barn and yard wall
- Old Lemon House Farm building
- Osbaldeston House
- Parish Rooms
- Pickering’s Farmhouse
- Pickering’s Farm Barn
- Saint Leonard’s Church
- Saint Leonard’s Church Sundial
- Saint Saviour’s Church
- Saint Saviour’s School
- Seed Lee Farmhouse
- The Cottage
- Todd Hall
- Todd Hall Barn
- Unicorn Inn
- Walton Bridge
- Watch house
- War memorial
- Ye Olde Hob Inn
Some information related to a number of the Listed Buildings can be seen below.
Old Lemon House
Old Lemon House, the Barn, yard wall and the other farm building that comprise the various listings for that location appear to be the residence of an ancient family. They were probably hereditary judges or law men of the court baron of Walton. There is an entry in the The Victoria County History of Lancaster as follows:
LEMON HOUSE was the seat of an ancient family who were probably hereditary judges or law men of the court baron of Walton. Thurstan Banastre gave land here in the time of John or early Henry III to Kandelan son of Robert, and it afterwards passed to Adam son of the Laghmon who occurs in 1246.
Others of the line are Henry (l 278 and 1292), Henry son of Henry Laghmon or Laweman (1332), Robert son of Henry (1347), Robert and Ralph sons of Richard son of Robert (1415-23). Robert Lemon had Ralph, and in 1504 John Lemon and Robert his brother occur. James Lemon of Walton, brother of Edmund of Preston, was father of William, an alderman at Preston gild in 1622 ; Henry his son was an in-burgess in 1642, and William son of Henry a councillor of the gild in 1662 and alderman in 1682. As William Lemon, gent., he sold the Lemon House estate in 1663 to John Woodcock the elder, descended from the family of Woodcock of Cuerden Green. His grandson John Woodcock alienated the estate before 1742.
Osbaldeston House
The following information originates from ‘A History of the County of Lancaster’ Volume 6. This was published by Victoria County History, London, in 1911.
Osbaldeston House stands near the road leading from Walton Church (Saint Leonard’s) to Moon’s Mill (an earlier name for Higher Walton). It was rebuilt in 1661 by William and Dorothy Osbaldeston, as recorded by their initials and the date on a stone over the porch.
Todd Hall
Todd Hall is a Grade II Listed Building that dates back to 1630. This makes it the oldest building in the Walton le Dale area, and generally around Preston and South Ribble. It was restored in 1938 by A. C. M. Lillie, a local architect, after lying derelict for ten years.
The Bamber Bridge Architect A.C.M. Lillie’s work included the New Patients Wing at Preston Royal Infirmary and the tower on St Paul’s Church, Longridge.
Read more about Todd Hall the Listed Building Dating Back to 1630 here
All the coordinates of these Historical Buildings and structures have been mapped using OpenStreetMap. They can be seen on this OpenStreetMap by clicking here.