Fox Meadow is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.

Fox Meadow

WRENN ID
pale-sandstone-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
House
Address
Fox Meadow, Ashreigney
OS grid reference
SS 646 154
Coordinates
50.92223, -3.92724
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Fox Meadow is a small house dating from the late 17th century, with additions from the 18th and 19th centuries, and alterations made in the 20th century. The building features plastered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, with a brick axial stack and another stack at the rear right-hand corner.

Originally, the house had a two-room plan, with each room heated by an end stack. The position of the stack in the right-hand room suggests it may have been added later. The left-hand end of the house was previously an outbuilding and is likely either integral to the original structure or an 18th-century addition. A 19th-century outshut has been built behind the left-hand end. In the 20th century, the partition between the original two rooms was removed.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical five-window front. The four right-hand windows on the first floor and two on the ground floor to the right are Victorian two-light casements with diamond leaded panes. To the left on the first floor is a 20th-century two-light small-paned casement. There are four later 20th-century one and two-light casements on the left-hand side of the front, which was formerly an outbuilding. The house features two slate doorhoods at the center and right of center, with 20th-century plank doors below and a 20th-century glazed door to the left of center. At the left-hand end of the front, there is a full-height recess infilled with 20th-century casements. The 19th-century outbuilding outshut is located behind the left-hand end.

Inside, the left-hand fireplace has a rough wooden lintel, while the right-hand fireplace features a chamfered wooden lintel and a cloam oven. The interior has rough, fairly insubstantial axial beams, and the roof trusses consist of rough, insubstantial straight principals, likely from the late 18th or 19th century.

Local climate

Fox Meadow sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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