Little Meadow is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Little Meadow
- WRENN ID
- lone-balcony-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Little Meadow, Hormead Dane, SG9 0NT
- OS grid reference
- TL 402 300
- Coordinates
- 51.95146, 0.03946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Meadow is a house dating to circa 1700, with a rear kitchen from the 18th century and renovations from the early 19th century. The west end was heightened to two storeys in the 1950s. It is timber-framed with a stucco sill, roughcast render and black weatherboarding to the east end and ground floor of the rear wing. The house has a steep red pantile roof. The main house, facing south, has a three-cell plan with a door positioned a third from the east end, and two rear wall chimneys. It features three windows on each floor and a gabled pantiled porch accessed by six steps. The windows are three-light flush wood casements with louvred shutters, and the front door is a four-panel flush beaded design.
Inside, the house retains exposed timbers, including chamfered axial beams and squared joists. There is an open fire and a bread oven in the kitchen. Other original features include a plank door with old iron hinges, an 18th-century corner cupboard with raised and fielded panels, a dentil cornice, H-hinges, and a staircase opposite the entrance. The roof structure includes clasped purlins. A corner cupboard in the parlour incorporates raised and fielded panels, a dentil cornice and H-hinges. The house was once known as Chapman's Farm.
Local climate
Little Meadow sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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