The Meadows is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1987. A C19 House.

The Meadows

WRENN ID
long-parapet-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 January 1987
Type
House
Address
The Meadows, Mary Tavy, West Devon
OS grid reference
SX 508 788
Coordinates
50.59055, -4.10907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Meadows is a mine captain's house, now a residential property, located adjacent to Kent House. It was built in the early to mid-19th century, with some later alterations. The building features a rubble construction with a slate-hung front and an asbestos slate roof, which has a rubble and brick gable stack on the right side.

The house has a two-room plan, with a porch that leads to a central passage hall. There are rooms on both the right and left of the hall, and a straight staircase at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has three windows on the upper floor, all of which are 12-pane sashes. The ground floor features 16-pane sashes on the left and right, while the central flat-roofed porch has double half-glazed doors with stained glass and margin glazing, along with 4-pane lights with margin glazing on the sides and an inner four-panelled door.

The right return of the house has a slate-hung gable end, and the rear is constructed of colourwashed rubble with a lean-to that follows the pitch of the main roof. This side includes a two-light casement window, a single light, and a two-light 6-pane horizontal sliding sash under the eaves. There is also a glazed porch on the right with a half-glazed door, and the ground floor of the main house to the right has two 20th-century two-light casements. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Meadows sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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