Willow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1985. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Willow Farmhouse

WRENN ID
turning-fireplace-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Willow Farmhouse, Chediston, IP19 0BB
OS grid reference
TM 351 785
Coordinates
52.35436, 1.45233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Farmhouse is an early 16th-century farmhouse that features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with colourwashed brick on the right-hand gable end and a half-hipped thatched roof. The building has two storeys and includes various casement windows, mostly from the mid-20th century, along with a mid-20th century half-glazed entrance door. There is an internal stack and an external stack on the left-hand gable end. Originally a modest open hall house, it consists of six irregularly spaced bays, with two at the south end and one at the north end ceiled over, though there is no evidence of partitioning at ground level. The open hall is formed by the three closely spaced central bays. Notably, the floor beam immediately north of the stack is only chamfered on the north side, suggesting the presence of a firehood before the stack was added. The roof features queen posts and is smoke-blackened throughout. Overall, the interior has been significantly modernised.

Local climate

Willow Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.

More on this building

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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