Walnut Tree Cottage

WOOLPIT GREEN ROAD TL 9762 5/153 Walnut Tree Cottage - - II House; C15 or possibly C14, with major early C17 alterations. An open hall house with cross-wing to left built in late C16/early C17. One storey with attics; 2-storey crosswing. Timber-framed, encased in late C19 brick, now painted. Thatched roof, half-hipped to right. An axial chimney with shaft rebuilt in C19 gault brick. Two C19 eyebrow dormers with small-pane casements. Late C19 windows with segmental heads; casements with either small panes or leaded lights. C19 thatched lean-to entrance porch with C20 panelled door. Interior: The open hall has exceptionally modest framing and is a rare survivor of its status: the open truss has a tiebeam with curved chamfered square-sectioned archbraces. One closed truss at the upper end of the hall has widely-spaced studding and long slender arch windbraces. There is evidence for an open-hall window in the rear wall. The right-hand (parlour) cell has unchamfered 1st floor joists. A chimney was inserted, backing onto the cross-passage, in late C16 or early C17. A 1st floor was inserted in the hall, with chamfered joists, in C17 and the roof rebuilt in side-purlin form. A crosswing was built in late C16/early C17 with chamfered elm floor joists augmenting reused earlier unchamfered oak joists. Diamond-mullioned window evidence.

Listing NGR: TL9745162098