Willow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1986. Farmhouse.
Willow Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sunken-timber-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Willow Farmhouse, Norwich Road, Yaxham
- OS grid reference
- TG 005 105
- Coordinates
- 52.65601, 0.96399
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the late medieval period, with improvements made in the 16th and 17th centuries, along with some modern additions. The building features a timber frame, rendered clay lump, and brick construction, topped with a pantile roof. It has a double pile plan, with the rear pile being timber framed and having floors and a stack inserted, while the front pile dates to the early 19th century. The exterior does not reveal any special interest. Inside, there is an inserted 16th-century roll-moulded bridging joist that extends onto the cornices. The first floor has one exposed 5-light mullion window with roll mouldings, hollow chamfers, and surviving wooden stay bars, as well as one partially exposed ovolo-moulded mullion window. Parts of the timber frame are exposed, featuring heavy scantling with original infill, and there is a 16th or 17th-century axial stack. The roof has been modernized.
Local climate
Willow Farmhouse 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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