Willow Farmhouse

Willow Farmhouse is a late 16th-century timber-framed farmhouse situated on Cotton Willow Lane. Originally a three-cell building, it is largely roughcast-rendered with a thatched roof. The house has two storeys and an attic, and now features late 19th-century casement windows with single horizontal glazing bars, although an original upper window remains to the rear, exhibiting roll and cavetto-moulded mullions. A small 20th-century gabled porch with a boarded half-door serves as the lobby entrance. The stack has a heavy, plain axial shaft, with a smaller gable stack to the right. A one-storey rear outhouse contains a stack that once served a copper and bread oven. Inside, the first floor reveals plain studding and evidence of original windows. The hall features a chamfered-joist ceiling and a later 17th-century studded partition indicating a former cross-passage. Plain joists are present at the service end, with an intact service partition showing evidence of original doorways. An oak newel stair is also present. The interior contains a selection of good doors from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and the roof is a wind-braced side purlin construction.