Meadow House

Meadow House is a house, formerly a vicarage, dating from the late 18th century with some surviving medieval fabric. It is constructed of painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with concrete tile roofing to the front of the main range, asbestos slate roofing to the rear, and a slate roof with a hipped end to the rear service wing. The house has axial stacks, a stack at the left gable end, and an axial stack (with a demolished shaft) at the end of the service wing.

The main range has a 3-room and wide cross-passage plan, with the lower end on the left. The cross-passage contains a dog-leg staircase to the rear. A long service range extends at right angles to the rear, creating a T-shaped plan. While the core of the building may be medieval, as suggested by a section of smoke-blackened ridge that remains near the axial stack, the medieval plan is not fully recoverable due to the 18th-century remodelling. For example, the lower end, including the wide passage, was altered during this period, and the main range originally extended a further 2 bays with an additional entrance at the right gable end until around 1920.

The house is two storeys high with a four-window front. It has 16-paned sash windows throughout, with the ground floor sashes rising virtually from ground level. All are hornless except for those at the ground floor right end. The off-centre doorway has a shallow, bracketted timber canopy, a panelled doorcase, and a raised and fielded 6-panelled door with a decorative fanlight.

Inside, late 18th and early 19th century joinery is largely original, including 6-panelled doors to the ground floor, some 2-panelled doors to the upper storey, panelled window shutters, and a dog-leg staircase illuminated by a semi-circular arched rear stair window, featuring stick balusters and a moulded handrail ramped up to turned newels. Decorative moulded plaster cornices are present in the principal rooms on each side of the passage; the left-hand room retains a 19th-century marble chimney piece. The roof structure is principally of the 18th century with rough pegged trusses, but a section of smoke-blackened ridge purlin survives close to the axial stack.