Willow Corner Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. A C16 House. 1 related planning application.

Willow Corner Cottage

WRENN ID
stony-rubblework-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Mid Suffolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Willow Corner Cottage, Church Road, Wortham, IP22 1PS
OS grid reference
TM 082 776
Coordinates
52.35765, 1.05607
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Willow Corner Cottage is a house dating from the early 16th century, with an inserted stack and floor and a parlour bay added in the early 17th century. It was raised and altered in the 20th century. The building has a timber frame that is plastered, and it features a shallow pitch pantiled roof. Originally, it was a small two-bay open hall with a storeyed service or solar end. A stack was inserted at the upper end, and a parlour was added to the right. The cottage is two storeys high, with the entrance located in a 20th-century gabled porch that occupies the original cross passage position. The windows are 20th-century glazing bar casements with hoodboards. A rebuilt axial ridge stack is situated between the hall and the parlour, and there is a 20th-century single-storey outbuilding on the left end.

Inside, there is a four-centred arched door head at the rear of the cross passage. The hall features studding without a midrail, an inserted stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer. The parlour has close studding and a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. On the first floor over the hall, there are cranked braces from jowled posts to cambered tie beams with a crown post mortice to the former open truss, arched braces in the walling, and window openings with four-light diamond mullions and two-light chamfered mullions. There is also reverse curved bracing over the parlour.

Local climate

Willow Corner Cottage 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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