Meadow Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. House.

Meadow Gate

WRENN ID
last-sentry-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 1984
Type
House
Address
Meadow Gate, West Fitzhead
OS grid reference
ST 116 286
Coordinates
51.05023, -3.26214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Meadow Gate is a house dating from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the early 17th century and early 20th century. It is rendered over random rubble and cob, topped with a slate roof. The building features a stone stack on the right and a brick stack above the entrance. It has an open hall layout with three cells and a lobby entry that leads to back-to-back fireplaces, facing south.

The house is two storeys tall and has irregularly placed early 20th-century windows. On the first floor, there are four two-light casements and one three-light window at the right end. The ground floor has two and three-light windows in the outer bays. A single-storey verandah with a slate roof, supported by wooden piers, covers the centre and features a glazed entrance door with a two-light casement to the right.

Inside, the room to the right of the entry has a nine-panel moulded compartment ceiling with inserted cross-moulded beams and rafters behind it, along with a staircase turret on the north side. The room to the left retains a plaster frieze and plaster decoration in a panel above the fireplace. The house originally had five pairs of jointed cruck trusses and was ceiled in the early 16th century, indicating its history as an open hall house.

Local climate

Meadow Gate receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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