Meadow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1984. A C17 House.
Meadow Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gutter-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Meadow Cottage, Lidgate Road, Dalham
- OS grid reference
- TL 721 615
- Coordinates
- 52.22511, 0.51926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is one-and-a-half storeys tall and features a three-cell lobby entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and encased in 19th-century red brick, which has been painted in the 20th century. The roof is thatched and includes an eyebrow casement dormer, along with an axial chimney made of red brick. The cottage has 19th-century three-light casements with segmental-arched heads and a boarded entrance door.
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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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