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Walnut Tree Cottage

Walnut Tree Cottage

Please Note: Walnut Tree Cottage is undergoing vital conservation work and is currently closed.

Walnut Tree Cottage was built in the 1860s and has been furnished to represent the home life of a farmworker in the 1940s.

Please note: Walnut Tree Cottage is undergoing vital conservation work and is currently closed.

Once it reopens, every room will be dressed with objects that were in regular use in the 1940s. Is there anything that you have never seen before? Are there objects that you recognise or do you have something similar in your home today?

Explore a living room, kitchen, scullery and two family bedrooms…along with the outdoor privy.

 

External view of a cottage with a chimney. A black front door and 3 windows.
Internal view of a 1940s kitchen with baking implements on a table by a window.
Wooden sign pointing to a privy
Dining room set up as if in a 1940s home

What can you see in and around Walnut Tree Cottage?

The cottage is undergoing important conservation work and will reopen in stages during the 2025 season. You can, explore the outside areas around the cottage.

Did you know that many houses did not have a bathroom inside until the 1950s?

This meant that toliets could be found outside and were known as ‘privies’.

See if you can spot our privy. Would you enjoy going outside to go to the loo?

This space is looked after by a team of gardening volunteers and along with the allotment, shows what the farmworker would have grown in their garden.

Explore Denny Abbey and The Farmland Museum

What else will you see on your visit?

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