Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1977. Cottage.
Meadow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- peeling-pewter-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Meadow Cottage, 84 and 86, the Street, Chelsworth
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 480
- Coordinates
- 52.09559, 0.8856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage is a 17th century timber-framed and plastered building with an L-shaped plan, featuring wings to the east and south. It stands two storeys tall. A later 18th century single-storey cottage extends to the west at the western end. The building has casement windows and boarded doors, and the roofs are tiled, topped with a central rectangular chimney stack.
Local climate
Meadow Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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