2, Meadow Way

The house at 2 Meadow Way, Melbourn, dates from around 1740. It is mainly constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with decorative details in burnt brick. The steeply pitched tiled roof is topped with a rebuilt ridge stack and an end stack set at a right angle to the ridge, using 19th-century grey brick. The house has a single-range, lobby-entry plan with a gable end facing the road.

The facade has a plat band of alternating red and burnt brickwork between the two storeys. Segmental arches, with decorative brickwork matching the plat band, frame the five first-floor windows. Four of these are original cross-frame casements with later glazing, while the fifth is a 19th-century sash window with twelve panes and a lowered sill. Similar arches are found above the ground floor windows, which include a larger cross-frame casement and two sash windows set in slightly widened openings. The original front door, located opposite the stack, has been replaced with a 19th-century four-panelled door and a flat hood supported by cut brackets. A tradesman’s door is located to the left, likely on the site of a former window opening. An original iron-frame casement remains in the attic, and segmental arches define two window openings at the rear, one at ground floor level, now blocked. The rear elevation features two small original window openings and one later sash window. Evidence of a rear addition is present, confirmed by an Ordnance Survey Map from 1885.

Inside, the central bay features an inglenook hearth with pot hooks and a smaller hearth adjacent to the front parlour. An 18th-century door has been re-used in the later staircase. A corridor has been inserted on the first floor, and some doors have been repositioned. The roof rafters are original, and the attic contains a garret.