Willis's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Farmhouse.
Willis's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rooted-thatch-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Willis's Farmhouse, Lambourn
- OS grid reference
- SU 320 768
- Coordinates
- 51.48962, -1.53927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willis's Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse that stands two storeys high. It is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings, featuring vertical strips on the main facade and horizontal bands on the rear and side. The roof is covered with old tiles and has flanking and corner chimneys. The building has an L-shaped plan, with a later extension that creates an additional arm at right angles.
The south and west elevations of the main part of the farmhouse are blank. On the west elevation of the subsidiary arm, there is a vertical sliding sash window and a door. The east elevation of the main arm features three mullioned and transomed timber casements with leaded lights, set under rubbed brick arches with key stones on the ground floor. There is also a first-floor string course and a door with a square fanlight beneath a flat hood. On the south elevation of the lesser arm, there are two mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor and three-light casements on the ground floor. The easternmost end of this elevation is a 19th-century extension that runs to the north and includes a two-storey cant bay window on its northern side.
Local climate
Willis's Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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