The Willows

The Willows is a house that is now partly used as a post office. It has a core dating from the 14th or 15th century, with later additions and alterations, and was significantly remodeled around 1920. The building features roughcast brick and a timber frame of cruck construction, along with a rendered brick addition and a slate roof. The original layout was likely an open-hall house with three cruck-framed bays, which was floored over in the 17th century. The eaves were raised and the structure was considerably altered around 1920.

The house has two storeys. On the first floor, there are three early 20th-century casement windows directly below the eaves, while the ground floor has five casements, with three located to the left of a mid-20th-century porch that has a half-glazed door, and two to the right. The gable facing the road is a 1920 addition, featuring two segmental-headed windows on the first floor and a wide shuttered shop front on the ground floor, which includes a segmental-headed doorway and a window to the right. There is a red brick ridge stack to the right of the original part and a 20th-century integral red brick end stack to the left, along with a subsidiary external lateral stack on the left wall of the 20th-century addition. An exposed truncated cruck truss can be seen on the left gable end.

Inside, there are two true cruck trusses that survive in addition to the one exposed on the left gable end. Both of these trusses are chamfered and feature collars, with arch-bracing on the right truss. The ground floor has a massive chamfered spine beam and cross beams. There is also a Jacobean overmantel above the fireplace beneath the ridge stack, which is said to have been brought from Bucknell Cottage.