Willow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Willow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
cold-cobble-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Willow Farmhouse, Earsham Road, Hedenham, NR35 2DF
OS grid reference
TM 310 924
Coordinates
52.48096, 1.40178
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, with the west gable dated 1709. It features a timber frame that is rendered and colourwashed, along with later brick additions. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with black-glazed pantiles, while the rear range has plain tiles. The building has two storeys and attics, and is arranged in an L-shaped plan with a lobby entrance.

The main facade faces southeast and consists of four bays with 20th-century sash windows that have glazing bars. There is an off-centre gabled porch adorned with decorative bargeboards, and the doorcase includes moulded pilasters and a frieze, leading to a 20th-century door. Above the porch is a 20th-century three-light louvred window. An axial chimney stack opposite the entrance features four linked lozenge-shaped shafts.

The rear wall has 19th and 20th-century casements, a lean-to conservatory, and a pantiled lean-to in the angle. There is a 1½ storey range at the rear, which is brick and colourwashed. The ground floor openings have been altered, and there is an axial chimney stack with three square shafts. A gabled dormer on this range has a three-light casement. The north side of the rear range is pantiled and colourwashed, with altered segmental-headed ground floor openings and two three-light dormers that have shaped bargeboards on the gables.

Local climate

Willow Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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