White Willows is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 2002. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
White Willows
- WRENN ID
- quartered-kitchen-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 2002
- Type
- House
- Address
- White Willows, the Street, Bergh Apton
- OS grid reference
- TG 306 011
- Coordinates
- 52.55888, 1.40092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Willows is a house built in the 17th century, with later alterations. It features a rendered and whitewashed timber frame topped with a reed thatch roof, complete with brick ridge and left end stacks. The house has a three-unit lobby-entry plan and is single storey with an attic. The front has a three-window range of wooden mullion and transom windows, with three similar dormers above. There is a heavy plank door located to the centre right in front of the stack, which is sheltered by an open thatched porch. The left end has a projecting stack and a three-light gable window, while the right end has a two-light gable window. The rear is mainly blank at present, but building work for an addition is currently in progress.
Inside, tall panel framing is mostly visible, including in the gable ends and partitions. Heavy jowled posts support chamfered bridging beams. There is a brick stack with an open fireplace featuring chamfered corners, and an unusual brick winder stair located behind the stack. The roof consists of principals with wedge-tenoned butt purlins and has provisions for dormers. Plank doors are present throughout. Above the hall chamber fireplace, there is a piece of panelling with fluting and lozenges. This house is comparatively little altered for its period and features the unusual brick winder stair incorporated with the stack.
Local climate
White Willows sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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