Little Meadowend

Little Meadowend is a lobby-entrance house dating from around 1600, with later additions. It features a timber frame that is plastered between exposed studding and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays aligned approximately north to south, with a chimney stack located in the second bay from the south against the east wall. The lobby entrance and stair are to the west of the stack, and a stair tower was added to the east of the stack in the 17th century, which was later converted into two small rooms. There is an external chimney stack at the north gable and two single-storey extensions beyond. The building has two storeys with attics.

The entrance includes a six-panel door with the top panels glazed, dating from the 18th century. There are three 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor. The main stack features grouped diagonal shafts, and the roof is hipped to the south. A blocked window with two hollow-moulded mullions is present on the ground floor at the rear of the south bay, along with a blocked doorway that is rebated externally to the north of the stair tower. Evidence of three removed oriel windows can be seen on the first floor.

Internally, the timber frame is exposed, showcasing jowled posts, arched braces to tiebeams, and arched bracing trenched to the inside of heavy studding. In the south bay, there is a plain-chamfered axial beam scribed into transverse members, with joists of horizontal section that are plain-chamfered with step stops. In the bay to the north of the stack, there is a plain-chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, while the rest is similar to the south bay. The original framed stair trap is located to the west of the stack, with short joists of horizontal section that are plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and a later stair in the aperture. The original rebated floorboards are present throughout, although some are covered by softwood boards, and there are grooves for sliding shutters. The house features large wood-burning hearths, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, and an original clasped purlin roof. An original newel stair leads to the attic, and a pine cupboard recessed into the stack on the first floor has mouldings and a carved diamond-shaped panel. There are also 18th-century pine doors.

The 1952 schedule noted that the building was plastered externally and had two 18th-century dormers. However, the external plaster was stripped, the dormers were removed, some windows were changed, and internal woodwork was stripped around 1979.