The Willows is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Willows
- WRENN ID
- western-attic-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Willows, the Street, Bawdeswell, NR20 4RT
- OS grid reference
- TG 046 208
- Coordinates
- 52.74669, 1.03117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Willows is a house that dates from the late medieval period and the 17th century, with modern refacing and additions. The original timber frame is still visible on the first floor of the east side, while the rest has been replaced with brick. It features a pantile roof and has a 15th or 16th-century bay facing the street, along with a 17th-century addition to the south. The building is two storeys high with a former attic and has three bays of modern tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, set beneath skewback arches with cambered soffits. There is one axial stack and one gable-end stack.
Inside, the house retains 15th or 16th-century bays with a large encased spiral bridging joist below. The original roof consists of closely spaced trusses with collars, a former collar purlin, and crown posts. The 17th-century bay features ovolo moulded bridging joists, a fireplace bressummer, and tie beams. A notable feature is a fine oriel window that projects into the landing on shaped brackets; this window has five lights with ovolo moulded mullions and a transom, flanked by two smaller two-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows. The roof also includes collars, butt purlins, and wind braces.
Local climate
The Willows receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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