Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. A C17 Cottage.
Meadow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-truss-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Meadow Cottage, Crow End, Bourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 328 570
- Coordinates
- 52.19612, -0.05808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a 20th-century crosswing added to the north. It features a timber-framed structure with rough cast render and thatched half-hipped roofs. There is a red brick ridge stack located to the left of the center. The cottage is one storey high with attics and originally had a two-unit plan, with a dairy to the north that was possibly rebuilt in the 18th century. The original entrance has been sealed, and later 19th-century entrances were added when the cottage was subdivided, along with a 20th-century entrance in the crosswing. The cottage has two horizontal sliding sash dormer windows, two similar windows on the ground floor, and two in the west gable of the crosswing. Inside, there are exposed wall frames and floor frames, as well as an inglenook hearth in the central room.
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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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