Willow House

Willow House is a detached villa dating to circa 1828, designed by John Pinch and Son. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with a double-pitched slate mansard roof, featuring two dormers and moulded stacks to the coped gable ends. The building has a double-depth plan with a wider rear range that projects to the right of the front range.

The symmetrical three-window front is two storeys high, with an attic and a lower ground floor. A moulded coping runs to a tall parapet, with a cornice encircling the building, and there is a returned first-floor sill band. The attic has a two-light casement window, the first floor has eight/eight-pane sash windows, and the ground floor has six/six-pane sashes set in semicircular arched recesses. The front door is within a Tuscan doorcase and has a cobweb fanlight above a door with four raised and fielded panels. A blind window is present on the left return.

The rear garden front incorporates sunblind boxes to a plate glass sash window, a full-height canted bay to the south-east end, a single-storey canted bay to the inside south-west end, and a two-storey cast iron verandah with a swept canopy and a French window to the first floor. The interior has not been inspected.

The building is a characteristic design from Pinch’s office, evidenced by a drawing accompanying the building lease of 1828. It represents one of Pinch’s later works, designed shortly before his death. The attic storey was added later, and the roof was originally intended to be hipped.