Building record 1071100000 - WILLOW TREE COTTAGE

Grade II. House. Original C16-17 cottage much extended C20. Coursed rubble stone, quoins, tiled roof, stone stack to left gable. Two storeys and attic, one bay. Three light leaded casements with moulded wooden mullions and timber lintels. Gabled dormer with similar 2-light window. Similar casements to right gable, that to ground floor modern. Single storey brick extension set back to right with entry and single leaded casement. Large two storey stone extension to left: two bays of similar 3-light windows with garage entry to left (B1).
The building appears to be an added parlour bay to an earlier, perhaps 16th or early 17th building which stood at right angles to the road. Clearly from the size and quality of the rooms, and the presence of two 3-light ovolo moulded windows on both ground and first floors, strongly suggests that this is a fragment of a house of more than average substance. The surviing bay, from the windows and internal detail, suggests that it was added in the second half of the 17th century. As an end bay, it seems to be a bay addition to an earlier building at right angles to the road, as the added bay at Home Farm, Deanshanger. Beyond this, little more can be adduced from the remaining structure (B2).