Building record 2019/0/1 - The Willows

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 404820 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly dower house for Mollington Hall, later farmhouse, now house: formerly dated 1684 with later eighteenth and mid nineteenth century alterations and additions. Rough cast brick, Welsh slate roof and two brick chimneys. Originally of near double-pile plan. Two and a half storey, four-bay south front. Second and fourth bays have twelve-pane sashes, the topmost ones in gabled half-dormers. third bay has a pair of glazed doors in the original entrance, with twelve-pane sash and setting for now lost datestone above. Left end bay and addition with projection on ground storey with sixteen-pane sash and twelve-pane sash above. Entrance in left end with mid nineteenth gabled hood. Right end has a blocked three-light rebated chamfered stone mullion window.

Interior: Main rooms all have heavy ceiling beams and moulded plaster cornices, partly original late seventeenth century. Extension to rear has old dairy with slate staging and a four-board door with iron strap hinges. Old cellar with stone steps.