The Willow House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1983. Cottage, restaurant.
The Willow House
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-solder-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage, restaurant
- Address
- The Willow House, High Street, Watton
- OS grid reference
- TF 917 008
- Coordinates
- 52.57164, 0.82749
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Willow House is a range of cottages that have been converted into a restaurant, dating from the late 17th century. The building features a timber frame with brick and lath and plaster infill, all rendered, and is topped with a thatched roof. It stands two storeys high on a brick plinth. The exterior includes close-studded wall posts with altered bracing, a first-floor wall plate, and a raised second-floor wall plate. There is a 20th-century door to the left of the stack, with four early 18th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four more in original openings on the upper floor. The roof is gabled with two symmetrical ridge stacks. At the rear, there are 19th-century pantiled lean-to outbuildings. The interior has been extensively renovated, but one 18th-century beam and fragments of others remain.
Local climate
The Willow House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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