Willesley House

Willesley House is a country house with probable origins in the late 16th century, indicated by a date of 1583 on an internal lintel. The house has undergone alterations and additions in the late 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and was in the process of extensive renovation during the resurvey in June 1986. It is constructed from coursed rubble with flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone dressings, and stone slate roofs featuring stone stacks. The building has a U-shaped plan, with a central core range that was refronted in the late 17th century, flanked by end wings to the south and three 19th-century wings to the north.

The south front consists of three elements: a central two-storey section with four windows, an advanced single-storey bay with one window to the right, and a blank gable end of the wing to the left, which has a lateral stack. The windows are late 19th-century small pane wooden cross-mullions set in 17th-century moulded stone surrounds. The ground floor window in the right-hand bay is larger but similar in style. A central bolection-moulded doorway features a glazed 20th-century door. There is a first-floor string course, a bolection-moulded cornice, a hipped roof over the advanced bay to the right, and one hipped dormer. The east end wall of the core range displays chamfered mullioned fenestration with hoodmoulds.

Inside, the ground floor room to the left boasts a fine 18th-century marble chimney-piece with carved brackets and a central panel depicting a rural scene. The central passage features an 18th-century staircase with plain balusters and a mahogany handrail, along with a dated lintel.