Willow House With Gate Piers And Walls

Willow House, dated 1730, was built for S. Aldbourne. It is constructed of ashlar with a stone tiled roof, coped gables, and ashlar end wall stacks. The formal south front presents a three-story, five-window arrangement, featuring channelled angle pilasters, a plinth, two string courses, a moulded cornice, a parapet, and a small central pediment with a cartouche dated 1730. The windows are segment-headed, set within raised moulded surrounds with a bead-moulded inner edge. Attic windows have 6 panes, while ground and first-floor windows have 12 panes and keystones to their surrounds. The central first-floor window is round-headed, with a keystone, imposts, and moulded spandrels to its surround. The doorcase is segmental arched with a keystone and a broken pediment on scroll brackets, sheltering a fielded panel door with a segmental overlight. Four stone steps, with 20th-century iron rails, lead to the entrance.

Attached to the house is a coped stone garden wall that rises up to the house and to central stone gate piers topped with caps and ball finials. 20th-century wrought iron gates are in place. A two-story range, dated 1908 and of no particular architectural interest, is attached to the rear west side.

The interior includes a fine panelled room on the ground floor to the right, and a stone vaulted cellar.