Willow House

Willow House is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It has two storeys and a three-cell layout. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, featuring plain tiles on the front slope of the roof and pantiles on the rear. An early 17th-century stair wing projects from the front, with the gable apex slightly overhanging above the tie-beam, which is decorated with guilloche ornament. Inside, there is an internal chimney stack with a plain rebuilt shaft and various 20th-century small-paned casements.

Access to the house is through a small single-storey lean-to on the west side of the stair wing. The frame consists of four bays, with exposed timbers inside. The two central bays are from the 16th century, showcasing two-and-a-half inch chamfers and curved stops on the main beam, which are also repeated on the sides of the main posts, along with closely-set joists finished in a similar manner. The chimney stack, which has two back-to-back hearths, intrudes into one bay and is a later addition. One of the two original doorways of a cross-entry is adjacent to this stack, with the stair wing right beside it; the doorway features multiple ovolo-mouldings and crested stops at the base of the jambs.

The end bay to the west of the stack replaces an earlier section of the house and is framed separately. It has a chamfered main beam, widely spaced plain joists, and an ovolo-moulded cross-beam embedded in the brickwork of the stack. The fireplace includes a timber lintel. The eastern bay, now combined into one room with the central bays, is a later 17th-century extension with poorer framing. There are remains of a diamond-mullioned window on the south side of the upper storey, and the roof features side purlins. The stair wing contains an early 19th-century stair.