Willoughby'S Farmhouse

Willoughby's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th century, with a remodelled front range built in the late 17th century. The building features roughcast over a timber frame and has a gabled old tile roof. There are two brick lateral stacks at the rear and a 17th-century brick ridge stack on the rear wing, which has three octagonal flues set on a stack with a moulded cornice. The front of the rear wing includes part of a 15th-century open hall, which was extended in the early 17th century to form an L-plan with a rear left wing. The late 19th-century four-light casements with glazing bars are topped with flat rendered arches. The two-storey rear wing has a 20th-century porch and an early 19th-century brick porch, along with late 19th-century casements with glazing bars and an early 19th-century brick and tile outshut at the rear. A 17th-century stair turret is located at the rear of the main range.

Inside, the front range features a mid-19th-century stair hall with a stick-baluster staircase. To the left, there is an olovo-moulded beam with carved fern-leaf stops, and to the right, a cased beam with an early to mid-19th-century fireplace. The first floor has a cased beam to the right and an olovo-moulded beam to the left, along with a five-bay collar-truss roof that includes straight windbraces and cyma mouldings on the jowled storey posts. The roofspace contains a 17th-century granary with a boarded partition over the stair turret, which is a rare survival. The front room of the rear wing on the first floor has jowled storey posts and a 15th-century collar-purlin roof from the former open hall, as well as a 17th-century chamfered segmental-arched fireplace. A 17th-century ribbed door leads to the rear room, which has an old straight-flight staircase next to the fireplace. The ground-floor front room features half of a 15th-century semi-circular arched doorhead, a 17th-century brick open fireplace, a 17th-century inserted floor with exposed boards and joists, and a 17th-century three-light diamond-mullioned oak window. The room at the rear includes a 17th-century chamfered beam.