Willow Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1988. Farmhouse.
Willow Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pier-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Willow Farmhouse, Southolt
- OS grid reference
- TM 194 687
- Coordinates
- 52.27303, 1.21546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and roughcast-rendered, topped with a pantiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a three-cell layout. There are three windows featuring mid 20th century casements without glazing bars. A 20th century gabled porch with a boarded and battened door is located at the cross-entry position. The internal stack has a rebuilt shaft, while there is a 19th century gable stack on the left. A single storey mid 20th century lean-to is present on the right gable end.
At the rear of the parlour cell, there is a late 17th century dairy that was heightened in the mid 20th century. The farmhouse retains an intact frame with plain studding and reverse-curved braces. There is one blocked first floor window with ovolo mullions, and an incomplete mullion and transom window in the left gable. The parlour and service end feature axial bridging beams with ogee stop-chamfers and plain square joists, while only the axial bridging beam is visible in the hall. The attic floor has plain square joists, and the roof is a clasped-purlin design with two-way wind bracing. The newel stair to the first floor has been removed. The dairy addition includes a good brick floor, which is likely original.
Local climate
Willow Farmhouse sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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