Willow Tree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C16 House.
Willow Tree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hushed-rotunda-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow Tree Farmhouse, the Street, Tivetshall
- OS grid reference
- TM 167 864
- Coordinates
- 52.43306, 1.18752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Tree Farmhouse is a house that likely dates from the 16th century, with an early 17th-century wing and 20th-century extensions and alterations. It is timber-framed with colour-washed rendered walls and a concrete-tile roof featuring a brick ridge stack. The structure consists of a 2-bay hall range with a west wing and an eastern extension facing the road. It has two storeys with an attic in the wing, and the gable is oriented towards the street. The entrance is located on the right side within a lean-to porch, and there are various 20th-century casement windows. Similar casements and French windows are present on other elevations, along with a single-storey projection on the left side.
Inside, the timber-framing is preserved in the hall range and the parlour wing. The hall features jowled posts, heavy joists, and open fireplaces within a massive brick stack, with a winder stair set into the curved end. The ground floor room in the wing has a chamfered beam with ogee stops and similar joists, while the upper floor has plain joists. The roof has mostly been renewed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Local climate
Willow Tree Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% 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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