278 North Main Street, Across the street from the Gerrish House is the Walker Cottage, which is a far fuller expression of the ideas of Andrew Jackson Downing. Built by Joseph Burbeen Walker, then the owner of the Walker-Woodman House, as a home for a farm family who managed the extensive fields on the Merrimack flood plain below, this cottage is an almost exact copy of the design for "A Symmetrical Bracketed Cottage" from Downing's 1851 pattern book, The Architecture of Country Houses.
Notice the board and batten siding, lancet windows, bracketed eaves, shed window hoods and projecting 2nd story central pavilion with pendant drops. The entry has a four-panel period door flanked by side lights and transom.
The Walker Barns include 2 barns and a 3rd frame barn- type structure to the south, nearer the Walker House. It was built in 1830, replacing an earlier structure erected by the original owner, Rev. Timothy Walker. It measures 40 X 80 and is sited perpendicularly to the street. The front and west sides are clapboarded and the east and rear sides are shingled. The walls are punctured by various doors; a 9 /6 window and six-light transom suspended above the south entrance. The eastern barn is partially mid 20th Century, replacing an 1830's barn which burned; it is late and features a gambrel roof with a projecting cable cap on the west side. Both structures are not altered very much and bear a strong association with the agricultural heritage of the area and of Concord.
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