Description

TM 07 SW WATTISFIELD THE STREET (WEST SIDE)

3/107 Walnut Tree Cottage

10/3/87

GV II

House. Late C15 and early C17. Timber-framed and rendered; thatched roof
with decorated ridge. 1½ storeys; 3-cell form; 4 bays. One internal and one
end chimney-stack, both with plain red brick shafts. 3 eyebrow dormers with
2-light small-paned C20 casement windows. One single-light and 2 3-light
standard casement windows to the ground floor. Wide single-storey enclosed
porch with side entry and a 3-light standard casement window on the front;
thatched roof sloping into the main roof. On the extreme right below the
eaves a small C17 2-light mullioned window with barred lights. All that
survives of the C15 house are the 2 bays of the former open hall with the 2
opposing 4-centred arched doorways of the cross-entry still in situ, and on
the rear wall the upper part of a 6-light diamond-mullioned hall window with
the mullions remaining. Chimney-stack, inserted backing on to the cross-
entry, has 2 pointed niches on the back wall; a plain timber lintel to the
ground floor hearth. Inserted beam in hall chamfered, with curved stops,
bar, and scribed zig-zag ornament, also on the post-head. Hall roof of rough
coppice-wood: smoke-blackened coupled rafters with remains of original plaster
laid against the thatch as a fire precaution. A plain early C17 parlour block
replaces the medieval service area: widely-spaced joists,,plain timber lintel
on ground floor, brick arch to smaller hearth on upper floor; in the rear
ground-floor wall a late C17 4-light window with square moulded mullions (cf.
similar mullions at Park Farmhouse, Item 3/98). To the left of the hall a
small bay added in the C17. For a more detailed account of the house cf.
Procs. Suff. Inst. Arch. Vol XXXI Pt 1 (1968) p.64 et seq: S. Colman, 'Two
Small Medieval Houses'.

Listing NGR: TM0096474130

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477797

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)