Walnut Lodge And Adjoining Stables

Walnut Lodge and the adjoining stables are a farmhouse and stable complex dating from the early to mid 18th century, with some mid 19th-century additions. The buildings are constructed of brick and timber framing, topped with pantile roofs. They feature rubble plinths, brick nogging, matchboard cladding, cogged eaves, and coped gables. The complex includes two gable and two ridge stacks, and consists of a single range with one and two storeys, comprising six bays for the house and five bays for the stables.

The windows are primarily 19th and 20th-century casements. The house has a lower two-storey addition on the left and a mid-19th-century two-storey porch on the right, which has a hipped plain tile roof. The left side of the house features two casements, while the porch contains a central casement flanked by two single casements with segmental heads. There is another casement beyond the porch, and above it are five additional casements. The rear elevation has a mid-19th-century flat-roofed dentillated porch, flanked by two casements on the left and one on the right. To the right, there is a single-storey dairy from the mid-19th century, which has a single casement with a segmental head.

Inside the house, there are two chamfered span beams, one with stops, and two fireplace bressumers, one also with stops. The softwood winder stair features a rectangular newel and flat balusters, and there are two 18th-century beaded plank doors.

The stables to the left have a single bay brick addition at each end and consist of four bays of timber framing with an intermediate rail. The front of the stables features two doors on the left and a small casement on the right, flanked by single doors, one with an overlight. Above this, there are four casements. The rear of the stables has three bays of timber framing and, to the right, two 20th-century plank garage doors. The interior includes two pairs of jowled bay posts with cambered tie beams and braces, a single bay post with a tie beam, two braces to the front wall plate, a single panel of mud and stud, and two pairs of upright struts supporting a late 19th-century purlin roof.