The Willows is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
The Willows
- WRENN ID
- far-pewter-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 April 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Willows, All Saints' Common, All Saints and St. Nicholas, South Elmham, IP19 0PA
- OS grid reference
- TM 340 827
- Coordinates
- 52.39287, 1.43841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Willows is a farmhouse with a core dating from the late 16th century to the early 17th century, featuring early and later 19th-century additions and alterations. The building is L-shaped, with two storeys and attics. The main range is timber-framed and covered in mathematical tiles, while the cross-wing, built around 1840, is faced in matching white brick. The original black glazed pantiles have been replaced with concrete pantiles.
The gables are adorned with pierced and fluted barge-boards and spike finials. Inside, there is a white brick internal chimney stack with four square pots, and a rear stack on the cross-wing. The front of the house features three-light casement windows with transoms and square Tudor hood moulds. In the attic of the cross-wing, there is a blank recessed panel with a hood-mould.
There are two entrance doors to the main range: one, next to the stack, has a 20th-century door in a pseudo-Georgian style, while the other has six sunk panels with applied mouldings and is recessed under a rustic timber porch. The gable wall on the southwest is roughcast, and there is a 1½ storey mid-19th-century lean-to at the rear, faced in red brick. The earlier features of the building are said to be concealed inside.
Local climate
The Willows 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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