The Willows is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 November 1987. A C17 House. 4 related planning applications.

The Willows

WRENN ID
fossil-bracket-winter
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
The Willows, Willow Corner, Wortham, IP22 1PS
OS grid reference
TM 081 775
Coordinates
52.35643, 1.05581
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Willows is a house, originally dating back to the 17th century, and extended in the 19th century with alterations in the 20th. It was later divided into two dwellings. The building is timber-framed with clay lump extensions and is partially weatherboarded, with a thatched roof. It follows a 3-cell lobby entrance plan, with a further bay added to the right. The house is one storey high with an attic. The front has a symmetrical arrangement of four window bays: a central entrance is flanked by 20th-century 2-light, opening, glazing bar casements, with smaller 2-light casements on the outer bays. Each of the inner bays has a 20th-century eyebrow dormer with a 2-light casement window, all under hoodboards. A central axial ridge stack is present. To the rear is a 20th-century flat-roofed addition. Inside, some of the original timber framing has been altered and concealed. On the left-hand side is an ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, stop-chamfered posts, and arched braces in the left-end wall. There are lean-to outshuts to the rear; the one on the left has pantiled roofing and a front door, while the one on the right is weatherboarded with a corrugated sheet roof.

Local climate

The Willows 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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