Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. House.
Meadow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-oriel-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Meadow Cottage, Church Meadow Lane, Alpington
- OS grid reference
- TG 296 014
- Coordinates
- 52.56252, 1.38669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It features a timber frame that is rendered and colourwashed, with parts refaced and underbuilt in brickwork. The rear elevation is partly weatherboarded, and it has a steeply pitched pantile roof. The cottage has two storeys and attics, following a lobby entrance plan.
The front has a four-window range that is widely spaced, consisting of 20th-century casements with leaded glazing in 2, 3, and 4 lights. The entrance is off-centre and has a moulded architrave with a plain canopy supported by brackets. There is a plain tiled offset in the south wall at first floor level, and two gabled dormers with 2-light casements, with the gables also partly weatherboarded.
To the north, there is a one-storey gabled wing that has a 20th-century external gable stack. Inside, the cottage contains a pair of service doorways at the western end, one of which is now blocked. The interior features beams with ogee and stepped chamfer stops, as well as fireplaces with hollow chamfered and quadrant moulded brick four-centre arches. A 20th-century stair has replaced the original winding stair in the lobby, but the original stair from the first floor to the attic remains. The butt-purlin roof may have been rebuilt at the east end in the mid-18th century.
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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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