Walnut Tree Cottage

Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed house located on Binscombe Lane in Godalming. Originally built in the 17th century, it has been added to and altered in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The structure features a timber frame with wattle and daub infill, although much of this has been replaced by painted brick infill. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and the building has two storeys with a total of five bays.

The third bay is the earliest, dating back to the 17th century or possibly earlier, and is timber-framed with a rear-wall chimney. The fourth bay is a later 17th-century timber-framed addition. The second bay is a late 17th-century or early 18th-century brick addition, while the fifth bay, which is taller and made of brick, was added in the 19th century. The first bay, also taller and set back, is a brick addition from 1987-1988.

The timber-framing in bays three and four includes wall-posts, mid-rails, wall-plates, tension braces, and tall rectangular panels in bay three, with shorter square panels in bay four. The doors and windows are from the 20th century: there is a board door in bay four (leading to number 127) with a single-light window to the left, and a gabled porch in bay one (leading to number 125) with a single-light window to the right. The remaining windows are 20th-century, two-light, wood-framed, leaded casements, with bay three featuring two on each floor.

Externally, there is a stack at the right end and another stack at the rear of bay three. The rear of the building has a rubble and brick plinth for bays two and three, with narrow orangey bricks laid in stretcher bond on the right and English bond on the left. Inside, there are square-panelled cross-walls between the three central bays, chamfered joists with lambs tongue stops in bay two, and similar joists and a spine beam in bay three, which may have been inserted. There is a fireplace with a timber bressummer and a bread oven in the side of bay three, and on the first floor, there is a reverse curved brace in the rear wall. The former end walls between bays one and two, and four and five, have three posts on a tie-beam, and the roof over number 125 features queen-strut trusses with through purlins and old rafters.