Willsbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Willsbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-oriel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Willsbury Farmhouse, St. Briavels
- OS grid reference
- SO 586 043
- Coordinates
- 51.73633, -2.60033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willsbury Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It features a rendered exterior and a plain tile roof with gable stacks, including a large external stack on the right. The house is tall and gabled, with a projecting cross-gabled wing at the back left, likely serving as a staircase. Part of the main block is a parallel range unit, and there is a 20th-century extension to the left that is not included in the listing. Significant modifications were made to the original structure in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The entrance front has three storeys with irregular window placement. There are two 6-pane sash windows roughly centered on the second floor, above two 12-pane sashes, one of which is located far right. On the ground floor, there are three 12-pane sashes and a 6-panel door set under an arch with a plain tympanum, keystones, pilasters, and impost blocks, positioned off-centre to the left. Between the windows on the right, there is a plain deep round-arched niche featuring a triple keystone.
At the back, the parallel range unit has three storeys, with a 12-pane sash over a 16-pane sash on the left, a 20th-century glazed door in a segmental keyed arch, and a low-set 3-light stone chamfered mullion casement without a drip over a 4-light similar casement that has a stopped drip. Both of these windows include inner diagonal saddle bars. To the right, a turret rises to 3½ storeys and features a small 2-light stone chamfered mullioned casement above 2-light 19th-century casements at the second and first floors, with a ground floor opening leading to a basement that has a 16th-century 4-centre arch. The interior has not been inspected, but the ground floor room to the left of the entry has a stone floor and a large 16th-century bressummer fireplace.
Local climate
Willsbury Farmhouse receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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