Willows Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. Farmhouse.
Willows Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-alcove-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Willows Farmhouse, Metfield
- OS grid reference
- TM 298 797
- Coordinates
- 52.36791, 1.3743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willows Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with an early 17th century range that is set forward to the right and was originally detached. The building is timber framed and encased in 19th century red brick, with the left gable end whitewashed. It has a roof covered with concrete plain tiles and stands two storeys high with an attic. The layout follows a three-cell lobby entry form. There are three windows featuring three-light large-paned casements with whitewashed flat arches. The gabled porch, made of whitewashed brick, has a 19th century half-glazed door. Inside, there is an internal axial stack and a small external stack to the right, which is set forward of the roof ridge. The later range is also timber framed, with parts plastered and parts encased in brick. In one ground floor room, there are geometric carvings on the heads of the storey posts and a crenellated bridging beam. The interior was not examined during the re-survey.
Local climate
Willows Farmhouse 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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