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Thames Street, WALTON-ON-THAMES, KT12 2PU

Sign for Image A Shepherd Neame pub on the corner of Bridge Street and Thames Street.

A Shepherd Neame pub on the corner of Bridge Street and Thames Street.

Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames

Behind Woolworths, on the way from Walton on Thames towards the river.

The Old Manor House In Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames, is a timber framed building with two projecting wings at each end. It is made up of two levels. The house was built in the 14th Century and was at one time the Manor House of Walton Leigh. Local tradition says that John Bradshaw once lived in the house, Bradshaw was the President of the Court that sentenced Charles I to his death. This picture was taken in the early evening hence the 'dark' picture. Refer to picture Image for further details regarding the history of the house.

The Old Manor House is behind the Old Manor Inn on Manor Road. The house dates from the 14th Century and the long timber-framed structure still looks today as it did when it was built over 600 years ago. The house is believed to have been a home of John Bradshaw, President of the court which sentenced Charles I - he may have even signed the king's death warrant in the house. It was once the Manor House of Walton Leigh, and in the 19th Century fell on hard times when it was divided into tenements and a number of poor families lived here. Today the Old Manor House is Grade 1 listed. It was restored by Ronald Segal who lived there up to his death on 23rd February 2008. He was an anti-apartheid activist, and a writer. He founded the Penguin African Library and was also Honorary Life President of The Walton Society. To the left of the pub is a small area with an information board and benches overlooking the house and the gardens. To read the board see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4347430

Postbox No. KT12 114 and Postbox No. KT12 1141.

Walton-on-Thames only has a few "ordinary" buildings that merit national listing because of their architectural value. From left to right the pair of brick built shops with houses with the mansard roofs forming Nos. 13 and 15 Church Street, and the timber framed white rendered building with the Dutch gable to the right at No. 17 Church Street forms one such grouping, dating from the 17th Century. Further to the right still is No. 19 Church Street, once the Palace Cinema which opened in 1920, latterly the Regent Cinema, and now a Wetherspoons public house also called the Regent.