Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Meadow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-flagstone-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Meadow Cottage, Knotting Road, Melchbourne and Yielden, MK44 1BE
- OS grid reference
- TL 026 656
- Coordinates
- 52.27929, -0.49637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage featuring a main wing that is colour washed rough cast with a thatched roof. The building has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and includes central red brick stacks. The front elevation has an off-centre modern gabled thatched porch and two 2-light casement windows with glazing bars on the ground floor. There is a one-storey wing, likely built at a later date, which is joined at right angles to the main structure. The northeast elevation displays exposed timber framing, while the southwest elevation has modern weatherboarding. The northwest gable end is also colour washed rough cast and has one 2-light casement window with glazing bars.
Local climate
Meadow Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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