Walnut Tree Cottage

Walnut Tree Cottage is a house that was later divided into four dwellings. It dates back to the early 16th century, with a floor and stack added and extended in the late 17th century, and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, topped with a thatched roof that has secondary hips. Originally, it was a small two-bay open hall with a storeyed lower bay, which was extended to the left to include a stack and a parlour. The cottage has one storey and an attic.

The original entrance, located to the right of the centre, is now blocked. There is a boarded door leading into the upper bay of the hall, along with 20th-century two-light lattice leaded casements and three eyebrow thatched dormers. Ridge stacks are positioned in the original cross passage to the right of centre and to the left of the original upper end, with rebuilt caps. The left end is hipped over a small 18th-century extension, and there are later lean-to outshuts on both ends.

Inside, the ground floor framing has been altered, but there is an original window sill in the service end. The inserted hall floor features a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, while the parlour has stop-chamfered jowled storey posts, a cross axial binding beam, and ogee and bar stop-chamfered fireplace bressumers. The left end wall shows tension bracing. On the first floor, there are arched braces to cambered tie beams and double arched braces in the former open truss, with the outer brace cranked. The walling also features arched braces, and there are remains of a six-light diamond mullioned hall window in the original upper bay, along with diamond mullioned window openings in the solar. Edge halved scarf joints can be seen in the wall plates, and the roof retains some early rafters and collars with mortices for crown posts, along with evidence of smoke blackening.