Walnut Thatch

Walnut Thatch is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and restoration in the mid-20th century. It features a timber frame with rendered infill set on a limestone rubble base and has a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the south end. The building has a limestone rubble chimney with two brick stacks at the front of the ridge and another brick stack at the southern end of the ridge.

The house consists of four framed bays aligned north to south, with a large chimney located just north of the southernmost bay. It is a single storey with an attic, which includes dormers. The framing generally consists of two or three panels from the sill to the wall-plate, with short straight braces in some upper corners. At the north end, a collar and tie-beam truss is visible, featuring two collars and four main struts supporting the lower collar, which is rendered above with the framing painted.

On the east front elevation, the windows are all 20th-century leaded casements arranged irregularly, including two 3-light and three 2-light windows, along with a rectangular light on the ground floor. Above these are three eyebrow dormers; one has a blocked window, one has a 2-light window, and one is very wide with three 2-light windows, two of which are paired. The main entrance, likely in its original position to the right of centre, features a thatched hipped-roof porch supported by timber posts and a 20th-century door. There are attic lights in the gable ends.

Inside, the central former hall contains a large fireplace and a cross-beamed ceiling. There are 20th-century lean-to additions at the rear.