Willow Farmhouse

Willow Farmhouse is a house of 16th and 17th-century origins, located on the south side of East Lane in Ufford. The house is timber framed with colourwashed render, revealing wattle and daub and brick nogged infill where the render has been removed. The construction is characterised by a baffle-entry plan.

The front elevation has a central doorway, with a 2-light window to its left. To the right of the door is a 3-light and a 2-light casement. The first floor has a central 3-light window with further lateral 2-light casements. A 2-storey lean-to is attached to the right. A stack, rebuilt at the top during the 20th century and containing two flues, rises from the ridge. The left-hand gable end contains a 3-light ground floor casement, a smaller first-floor window above, and is adjoined by a lower wing. This wing has a cross window and a 19th-century brick lean-to with 3-light and 2-light casements. The right-hand side has a ground-floor outshut that is blank.

The rear elevation features a projecting wing with a 20th-century breezeblock porch in the re-entrant angle. This porch has French windows on one side and a 1/2-glazed stable door facing outwards. Below are two 2-light casements and a doorway set within a section of brick walling. The first floor above contains a cross window, a 19th-century 3-light casement, and a 2-light casement.

The interior retains massive chamfered ceiling beams, chamfered joists with stepped lambs tongue end stops, jowled wall posts, and close studded walling. A chamfered bressumer is present by the hearth. One room features close studded walling, a blocked 4-light window with diamond-section mullions, a blocked doorway with a 4-centred head, and renewed 18th-century close studding with a passing brace. A later 17th or 18th-century dairy wing is located at the rear. The first floor exhibits jowled wall posts supporting cambered ties. The attic has crown posts, a crown purlin, and collars; soot blackening is absent. One crown post has an arched brace connecting it to the crown purlin. Numerous blocked windows at first floor level are evident, including three 4-light windows and one 2-light window, all with diamond-section mullions.