Meadow Court is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. House.

Meadow Court

WRENN ID
fallow-rotunda-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Oxfordshire
Constituency
Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1985
Type
House
Address
Meadow Court, 33, Chapel Street, Watlington, OX49 5QS
OS grid reference
SU 687 947
Coordinates
51.64708, -1.00803
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Meadow Court is a house located at 53 Chapel Street in Watlington, dating from the mid to late 17th century. The building features a rectangular and square timber frame, with some parts renewed on the sides. It has a gabled roof covered with old tiles and a brick ridge stack. The house is designed with a two-unit lobby-entry plan and consists of two storeys with a three-window range. There is a 20th-century two-storey porch with a 20th-century door and 20th-century three-light casements.

At the rear left, there is an early 19th-century two-storey section with a two-window range, roughcast walls, a gabled roof with both old and 20th-century tiles, and a brick end stack. Inside, the property features chamfered and jewel-stopped beams, a segmental-arched fireplace on the left, and ribbed old plank doors on the right. There is an early 19th-century panelled door leading to quarter-turn stairs next to the fireplace. The first floor also has chamfered and stopped beams, along with late 17th-century stone fireplaces that have stone moulded overmantles, one of which contains an early 19th-century grate. The roof trusses are obscured but are likely from the 17th century.

Local climate

Meadow Court 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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