Record Details
| NHER Number: | 14539 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Willow Farm |
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Summary
A 17th century timber-framed lobby entrance house with one survivng mullion window and 19th and 20th century alterations. Close to the house is a timber framed barn dating to about 1700. A stoneware witch bottle containing iron nails and tufts of hair was found in the house in 1977.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 0520 9914 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM09NE |
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| Parish: | MORLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
September 1977. Found in course of renovation under 'pantile floor' (presumably pammets) in north room by hearth.
Complete stoneware witch bottle, broken by fork (some fragments missing), (S1).
Containing iron nails and tufts of short hair (not seen).
August 1983. Listed Grade II.
List Description:
Lobby-Entrance type farmhouse. C17 with later side extensions. Rendered underbuilt timber frame with pantiled roof. Mainly C19 casement fenestration with horizontal glazing bars. One surviving 4-light mullion window. Doorway, with C20 porch, opposite off-centre axial stack.
Information from (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 18 March 1985. Updated H. Hamilton (HES), 03 May 2019.
October 2005.
Listing curtilage includes a timber framed barn. Aligned north-south, three steads. Jowled posts at corners and at end of tiebeams defining midstrey. These latter are supported on convex arched braces. The walls have full height V-bracing. The studs have chisel cut assembly numbers. Some wattle and daub infill survives, the remainder is weatherboarded. There are two 20th century flying tiebeams associated with a reroofing in part or whole, with struts from the tiebeams.
To the south is an attached lower range with slatted windows, date of barn is around 1700.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 October 2005.
Monument Types
- FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- LOBBY ENTRY HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED BARN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds
- CEREMONIAL OBJECT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- WITCH BOTTLE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Unpublished Document: Richard Jackson Plc. 2005. Proposed barn renovation and conversion, Willow Farm, Morley: Supplementary Inspection Report.. November. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Illustration: Unknown. 1977. Drawing of a post-medieval witch bottle.. Card. 1:1. |
| <S2> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1152098. |
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