Meadow Bank

Meadowbank is a house dating from the mid-17th century, with an 18th-century addition. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 20th-century brick chimney shafts, and a thatched roof. Originally a three-room plan house facing south, the left (western) room is the 18th-century addition, with a rear lateral stack. The central room has a projecting lateral stack, and the right (eastern) room has a rear corner stack. Rear outshots extend from the building. The house is two storeys high, with an irregular three-window front featuring mostly 19th-century casement windows with glazing bars and some old glass. A 19th-century iron security bar with a twisted stem is located inside the ground-floor casement at the right end. 20th-century doors are centrally positioned and at the right end. A 20th-century casement window to the right of the stack obscures a 17th-century doorway. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. The east end includes a probably late 18th- to early 19th-century two-light casement window to the stairs. The rear outshots contain some late 19th- to early 20th-century windows with leaded glass. Inside, cob crosswalls separate the rooms. The eastern room has a late 17th- to early 18th-century chamfered spine beam with run-out stops; a chamfered and scroll-stopped half-beam likely dates to the mid-17th century. A chamfered half-beam with scroll stops remains against the right room’s crosswall, and a 17th-century cupboard is found within the crosswall near the front. The roof over these two rooms is constructed with A-frame trusses featuring pegged dovetail lap-jointed collars. The western roof has a late 18th-century A-frame truss made of roughly finished timbers, with a plain pegged lap-jointed collar and an X-apex. On the ground floor of the western end, there is no exposed beam, the fireplace has been blocked and is lined with 19th-century plank wainscotting. According to current occupants, this room was formerly a parlor of an inn.