Willow Green Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Willow Green Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- turning-quartz-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Willow Green Farmhouse, Creeting St. Peter, IP6 8QR
- OS grid reference
- TM 078 582
- Coordinates
- 52.18376, 1.03869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Green Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, likely dating from the 15th century, with alterations from the 17th century. It is a small, three-cell open hall house that has one storey and attics. The building is timber-framed and roughcast, topped with a thatched roof featuring a central red brick chimney and one 19th-century eyebrow casement dormer. Most of the windows are mid-20th century small-pane casements, with two dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. The entrance door is framed and boarded, set beneath an open gabled porch supported by posts.
Inside, the open hall retains a complete smoke-encrusted coupled-rafter roof, with signs of a gablet at the right-hand end. The studwork is widely spaced, and a cambered tie-beam from the open truss shows evidence of thick, slightly-curved braces. The parlour cell to the right features heavy exposed floor joists. In the late 16th or 17th century, a large chimney was added in the cross-entry, and an upper floor with stop-chamfered joists was inserted in the hall. The roof to the right was converted to a gable in the 17th century, featuring wind-braced clasped purlins, while the left-hand cell has a butt-purlin roof from the late 17th or early 18th century, which may have been entirely rebuilt.
Local climate
Willow Green Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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