The Walnuts And The Thatched House

The Walnuts and The Thatched House are two houses located on Felsham Road in Cockfield. The first house dates from the 17th century and features a rendered timber frame, with some remaining pargetting, and a gabled thatched roof. It has a left end stack made of early 19th-century brick and a rear lateral stack also finished in early 19th-century brick. The second house, known as The Walnuts, was built in the mid-19th century and is constructed of flint with yellow brick quoins and dressings, topped with a hipped slate roof and brick stacks.

The 17th-century house has a three-unit plan and is one storey with an attic, featuring a two-window range. It includes two late 19th-century panelled doors, late 19th-century six-pane sash windows set in moulded wood architraves, and a three-light casement window in a swept dormer. The mid-19th-century house is two storeys tall with a three-window range, featuring a four-panelled door with a fanlight set in a semicircular arched brick architrave, tripartite and four-pane sash windows in segmental-arched brick architraves, and a dentilled cornice above three three-light casements on the first floor.

Inside the 17th-century house, there are stop-chamfered and boxed beams, as well as a collar-truss roof with clasped purlins. The mid-19th-century house has a central staircase with a stick baluster leading to the landing.