Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 March 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

Meadow Cottage

WRENN ID
carved-rubble-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 March 1978
Type
House
Address
Meadow Cottage, Oxford Road, King's Walden, SG4 8NP
OS grid reference
TL 151 221
Coordinates
51.88596, -0.32848
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Meadow Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It has a timber frame with roughcast and a red brick ground floor at the front, along with a narrow stair extension at the west end. The cottage features steep old red tile roofs. It is a two-storey building with a three-cell internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan, facing south, and has a small two-storey gabled rear wing located a third from the east end. A large chimney is situated at the ridge a third from the west end, with the entrance and gabled porch aligned to the front and a former winding stair position behind.

The south front has three windows on each floor, featuring flush casement windows with three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor west. There is a battened door located in the gabled tiled porch. Inside, the cottage has axial chamfered beams, with a bar stop in the middle room, and back-to-back open fireplaces connected to the main chimney. The former unheated parlour at the west end has a 19th-century external gable chimney and added fireplaces. The rear wing consists of two bays with an external gable chimney and the current stair. On the east wall of the chamber above the middle room, there is painted plaster with a large panel inscribed 'In the Deity trust/let mee not be ashamed', which does not appear to be from the Authorized Version.

Local climate

Meadow Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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