Spring Meadow is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. House, former farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Spring Meadow
- WRENN ID
- woven-chimney-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- House, former farmhouse
- Address
- Spring Meadow, the Green, Abthorpe, NN12 8QP
- OS grid reference
- SP 649 466
- Coordinates
- 52.11396, -1.05262
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Meadow is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating to 1681. It is constructed of coursed limestone and ironstone rubble with a corrugated asbestos roof and brick end stacks. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with two floors and an attic, and a two-window front. A central six-panel part-glazed door is set within a moulded wooden surround, topped by a timber lintel and a segmental iron hood supported by iron brackets. A datestone above the door is inscribed with "IZP/1681". There are old three-light casements to the ground and first floors, each with a timber lintel. Ironstone quoins are visible, and the gables are stone-coped with kneelers. A rear wing to the right has six-pane horned sash windows and a stone-coped gable with kneelers. The interior features chamfered spine beams, a dog-leg staircase with turned balusters, a four-centred-arched stone corner fireplace with cut spandrels, a bolection-moulded stone corner fireplace upstairs, and a stone cellar.
Local climate
Spring Meadow 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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