Willoughby'S

Willoughby's is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 17th century. It features greensand rubble on the ground floor and timber framing with colourwashed brick noggings on the first floor, topped with a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high with a basement and has a bay system of 2:½:1, including a central half bay with a stack and a lobby entry. The entrance has paired single panel doors with metal bosses. The ground floor is adorned with 2 and 3-light stone mullioned windows that have reserved chamfers, along with 2-light stone windows in the basement beneath the two left bays. The first floor has square panelled framing that is two panels high, with wavy corner braces and canted oriel windows featuring dentilled hoods, which have been restored and are supported on carved brackets. At the rear, there is a 20th-century extension that developed from a timber-framed rear wing attached to the left bay. Local tradition suggests that Oliver Cromwell stayed here after a local skirmish.