Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. House.
Meadow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-spire-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Meadow Cottage, Wickhambrook Road, Hargrave
- OS grid reference
- TL 769 592
- Coordinates
- 52.20349, 0.58867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It has a three-cell cross passage entry plan and is one and a half storeys tall, with attics and three windows. The building is timber-framed and has rough-cast render on the exterior. The roof is thatched and hipped at the right-hand end, featuring an axial chimney and an eyebrow casement dormer. There are 19th and 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century boarded entrance door. A notable feature is the complete timber chimney serving the hall, dating from around 1600, which has a short brick flue at the top; this is a very rare surviving feature for Suffolk. Additionally, there is a 20th-century thatched extension to the rear that is one and a half storeys high.
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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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