Willow Green Farmhouse

CREETING ST. PETER WILLOW GREEN TM 05 NE 4/77 Willow Green Farmhouse - - II

Former farmhouse. Probably C15, with alterations of C17. A small 3-cell open hall house. 1 storey and attics. Timber-framed and roughcast. Thatched roof with axial chimney of red brick, and one C19 eyebrow casement dormer. Mainly mid C20 small-pane casements, 2 being of late C19 or early C20. Framed and boarded entrance door with open gabled porch on posts. The open hall has a complete smoke-encrusted coupled-rafter roof, with evidence for a gablet at the right-hand end. Widely-spaced studwork. A cambered tie-beam from the open truss gives evidence for thick slightly-curved braces. The parlour cell to right has heavy exposed floor joists. In late C16 or C17 a large chimney was placed in the cross-entry, and an upper floor with chamfered joists inserted in the hall. The roof to right was converted to a gable in C17, with wind-braced clasped purlins. The left-hand cell has a butt-purlin roof of late C17 or early C18, and was perhaps entirely rebuilt.

Listing NGR: TM0782958297