Walnut House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.

Walnut House

WRENN ID
blind-flint-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Country
England
Date first listed
21 December 1967
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Walnut House is a house, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and late 18th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The main range, which faces northeast, has three bays with a stack in the left bay against the front wall and a 19th-century external stack at the right end. A two-bay crosswing extends to the left rear, and a 19th-century one-bay extension projects beyond it. A 17th-century wing is located to the rear of the right end, featuring an end stack, with a 20th-century lean-to conservatory extending beyond, forming a roughly half-eight plan. Number 125 occupies the left portion of the house, while number 127 (Walnut House) occupies the right.

The house is two storeys and has attics. Number 125 has 20th-century three-light casement windows, designed to resemble late 18th-century styles, a 19th or 20th-century casement in a gabled dormer, and a 19th-century flush door. Number 127 (Walnut House) has a late 18th-century three-light window with wrought iron casement, rectangular leading, and moulded mullions, alongside a similar window with renewed mullions and glazing. The first floor of number 127 also features two similar 18th-century windows, and a 19th-century four-panel door with glazed upper panels. A moulded coving runs below the eaves. The roof has a gablet shape.

Internal features of number 125 include evidence of former unglazed windows, including a wallplate scarf joint, mortices, and a shutter groove. A chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops is present alongside plain vertical section joists. A wood-burning hearth with a 20th-century grate and a newel staircase leading to the attic are also found here. Number 127 (Walnut House) reveals curved braces trenched outside heavy studding, alongside horizontal section plain joists jointed to the binding beam with central tenons. A chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops and a blocked framed stair trap are also present, along with a wide wood-burning hearth and 18th-century ceilings above the first floor. The rear right wing has a chamfered axial beam, plain joists of vertical section, a late 17th-century staircase with flat balusters, and a rebate and hinge for a child gate at the top.

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