Willow House

Willow House is a house that features a mid-16th century rear wing and an early 17th century front block, with alterations made in the mid-18th century and a refronting in the early 19th century. The building has a rendered and colourwashed timber frame and plaintile roofs.

The exterior consists of two storeys with a three-window façade. The central entrance has an 8-panelled and fielded door, with the upper two panels glazed, framed by fluted pilasters and a plain entablature. Above the door is a 6/6 unhorned sash window. On either side of the entrance are full-height canted bay windows, each fitted with 6/6 unhorned sashes. The gabled roof features an external gable-end stack on the west side. The rear of the front block is highlighted by a two-storey mid-18th century gabled staircase tower, which includes a round-headed 8/8 sash window. There is also a square privy turret at the angle between the staircase tower and the main wall. A 20th-century conservatory is attached to the ground floor, with a 6/6 unhorned sash window above. The rear wing is also two storeys high, with a pentice porch protecting the door on the west side, flanked by 19th century casement windows, and another casement window on the first floor. The gabled roof has a central ridge stack and an additional ridge stack to the north. The east side of the wing has an irregular three-window range, with a panelled door set within a timber doorcase and mixed 19th century casements.

Inside, the front block features a close-studded timber frame. The east room has a brick fireplace with a 4-centred arch and sunk-quadrant mouldings, along with boxed bridging beams. A mid-18th century open-string staircase has three turned balusters per tread, a ramped and wreathed handrail, and a dado rail. The staircase landing has small-framed 17th century panelling on the wall. The first-floor west room features a sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam with two soffit fillets, and the roof structure includes principals, collars, a lower tier of butt purlins, an upper tier of through purlins, and curved windbraces. The rear wing has a heavy timber frame, with chamfered bridging beams on the ground floor and two blocked first-floor windows on the west side. The roof is a clasped purlin type with diminished principals and curved windbraces.