Willow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse.

Willow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sheer-lantern-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Willow Farmhouse, River Lane, Cranworth
OS grid reference
TG 002 035
Coordinates
52.5932, 0.95431
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1600 and later. It features a rendered timber frame with rendered brick extensions at the rear and side, topped with thatched roofs. The building has a lobby entrance type plan, with an 18th-century rear extension that blocks the original entrance and creates a T-shaped layout. It stands two storeys tall and has a facade with four late 20th-century hardwood mullion and transom casement windows with imitation cames. There is one surviving 18th-century three-light window with a metal casement and leaded glazing. A modern gabled porch has been added to the front. The rear facades also have 20th-century casements, except for one 19th-century two-light casement window at first floor level, which has "cheese room" painted above it on a panel. The main block has an off-centre axial stack, while the rear extension features a staged external stack.

Inside, there is a blocked lobby door with a four-centred head, chamfered beams with elaborate stops, and one room that has angle rolls to the common joists. The staircase remains in its original position but has likely been altered. The roof features clasped purlins.

Local climate

Willow Farmhouse 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 80% 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 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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