Walnut Cottage

Walnut Cottage is a 17th-century squatter's cottage that was extended in the late 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with plaster and painted brick infill, but much of it has been rebuilt and extended using roughly coursed gritstone rubble. It has a machine tile roof. Originally designed as a single-cell plan, the cottage was expanded by adding a stone-built range at a right angle to the east.

The cottage is one storey and has an attic. The framing is partly exposed on the north gable end of the 17th-century section, featuring square panels and V-struts from the collar, but is mostly concealed behind an early 19th-century lean-to that includes a large external stone stack with a red brick shaft and a bread oven. On the south side, the windows are irregularly placed, featuring one mid-19th-century casement window with a segmental brick head on the first floor of the gable, a similar window to the right of a boarded door beneath a 20th-century gabled wooden porch, a small fixed-light window to the left, and a 20th-century gabled dormer in the roof slope. There is a prominent external end stack to the right with a red brick shaft, and an early 19th-century timber-framed addition that abuts it, although the front wall of this addition has been rebuilt in 20th-century red brick. Inside, the 17th-century section features a chamfered spine beam and heavy joists on the ground floor.