Meadow Farmhouse

Meadow Farmhouse is a house that consists of a complex of buildings dating from at least three different periods: a 16th-century core, an early 17th-century parlour addition on the left, and a lower early 18th-century range on the right. The farmhouse was restored from three farm cottages in the 1970s. It is timber framed and plastered, with the left gable end rebuilt in red brick and some colourwashed brick at the rear. The roof is covered with pantiles. The building has two storeys with an attic above the parlour. It features various mid-20th-century casement windows and a mid-20th-century six-panel door, with a cornice supported by imported enriched console brackets. Each range has an internal stack; the left-hand stack, which has been rebuilt, includes a stone tablet carved with two blank shields surrounded by vine leaf ornament. Internally, the timber frame is exposed, although there have been many later alterations and rebuildings. The parlour has a floor beam with shallow double-curve moulding and enriched stop-chamfers with a bar, along with remnants of a moulded cornice. The room above the parlour showcases good timbering with cranked arched corner-bracing and signs of two original windows. The room next to the parlour features heavy unchamfered joists and a main beam with broach stop-chamfers, likely from the 16th century; this ceiling appears to have been inserted. There is evidence that this section of the house has been raised by approximately 0.4 meters, and in the original part, a small three-light diamond-mullioned window has been uncovered.