Willersey House And Ornamental Garden Walls

Willersey House is a manor house with ornamental garden walls, dating from the 17th century and early 20th century, with the latter part designed by A.N. Prentice. The building is constructed from coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, topped with a limestone slate roof featuring flat gable coping and roll-cross saddles. The 17th-century section has an ashlar gable end stack on the right and another stack off centre on the left. The 20th-century wing on the left projects forward and includes twin ashlar gable end stacks and a triple ashlar stack, all with moulded upper and lower courses. The gable end of the 20th-century wing has stepped buttresses.

The main body from the 17th century is two storeys with an attic, lit by four Cotswold dormers with single lights and features irregular fenestration, including three and four-light stone mullioned casements on both floors, all with stopped hoods. There is also a single 20th-century casement. The entrance features an unpainted, studded, plank door located off centre on the left, with decorative strap hinges, set in a flat-chamfered, depressed arched surround with a stopped hood above. A 19th-century style bell pull is present.

The left 20th-century wing has one, two, and three-light flat-chamfered stone mullioned windows, all with stopped hoods, and those in the gable end have four-centred arched heads. There is a door in the gable end of the left wing that imitates the front door, and another door with a moulded surround on the right wall of the wing adjacent to the main body.

The garden walls, which create geometric and curving patterns at the front and rear, are made of limestone rubble with slightly pointed capping stones, reaching up to one meter in height. Some openings in the walls are flanked with ball finials. Originally, the building served as a farmhouse in the village, which was relocated uphill and rebuilt in 1912 by A.N. Prentice in a significantly enlarged form. The interior has not been inspected.