The Mead is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. House.
The Mead
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cellar-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Mead, Church Street, Coltishall, Broadland
- OS grid reference
- TG 270 194
- Coordinates
- 52.72523, 1.36157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Mead is a house dated 1740, which was extended to the northwest in the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features both pantile and slate roofs. The building has an 'L' shaped plan and stands at two storeys with attics. The original house has five windows, with the central bay set forward and topped with a brick pediment above the eaves. It has a brick plinth, moulded brick platbands, and rusticated brick quoins.
There is a central 19th-century single-storey brick porch that has double half-glazed entrance doors beneath a splayed elliptical brick arch. The porch features a stone parapet with iron balusters. The house has sash windows with glazing bars, stone sills, and flat gauged brick arches. A Venetian window with a shouldered architrave is located in the pediment. The roof includes two gabled dormers with moulded timber verges and casements with glazing bars.
Additional features include a moulded timber cornice, curved gables, and 19th-century paired octagonal end stacks. The 19th-century additions at each end match the style of the original structure. The plan and fenestration are irregular, with glazing bars and gauged brick arches, and there are clustered shafts with battlemented caps in the hipped roof to the southwest. The interior features panelled rooms and a good staircase. The house is dated 1740 and displays the monogram I.S. on the south gable.
Local climate
The Mead sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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