Willow House

WILLOW HOUSE, 50, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316594
Date first listed:
15-Jun-1951
List Entry Name:
Willow House
Statutory Address:
WILLOW HOUSE, 50, CASTLE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316594
Date first listed:
15-Jun-1951
List Entry Name:
Willow House
Statutory Address 1:
WILLOW HOUSE, 50, CASTLE STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WILLOW HOUSE, 50, CASTLE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Suffolk
District:
Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Eye
National Grid Reference:
TM 14725 73693

Details

EYE

TM1473 CASTLE STREET 585-1/7/52 (South side) 15/06/51 No.50 Willow House

II

House. Mid C16 rear wing, early C17 front block, altered mid C18 and refronted early C19. Rendered and colourwashed timber frame. Plaintile roofs. EXTERIOR: facade of 2 storeys. 3-window range. Central 8-panelled and fielded door, the upper two panels glazed. Doorcase of fluted pilasters and plain entablature. One 6/6 unhorned sash above. Either side is a full-height canted bay window fitted with 6/6 unhorned sashes. Gabled roof with external gable-end stack to west. Rear of front block dominated by 2-storey mid C18 gabled staircase tower, with a round-headed 8/8 sash. Square privy turret in angle between this and main wall. C20 conservatory to ground floor with 66 unhorned sash above. Rear wing of 2 storeys. West side with pentice porch protecting door. One C19 casement right and left and one to first floor. Gabled roof with central ridge stack and ridge stack to north. East side is irregular 3-window range. Panelled door within timber doorcase. Mixed C19 casements. INTERIOR: front block with close-studded timber frame. East room with brick 4-centred fireplace with sunk-quadrant mouldings. Boxed bridging beams. Mid C18 open-string staircase: 3 turned balusters per tread, ramped and wreathed handrail and dado rail. C17 small-framed panelling to wall of staircase landing. First-floor west room with sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam with two soffit fillets. Roof of principals, collars, lower tier of butt purlins, upper tier of through purlins. Curved windbraces. Rear wing. Heavy timber frame. Chamfered bridging beams to ground floor. 2 blocked first-floor windows to west. Clasped purlin roof with diminished principals and curved windbraces.



Listing NGR: TM1472573693

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
468304
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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