Mere Cottage And Attached Garden Wall Mere House And Attached Garden Wall

Mere Cottage and Mere House, along with their attached garden walls, form a single architectural composition dating from around 1840 to 1850, designed in the Jacobethan style. Constructed from red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs, the house is two storeys high and features three bays, while the cottages are single storey with attics and two bays, creating a symmetrical U-shaped plan.

The house has a central bay that includes a two-storey projecting porch supported by angle buttresses. The porch features a four-centred arched doorway beneath a brattished cornice, flanked by four-light mullion-and-transom windows with horizontal glazing bars, all set under hoodmoulds with face-stops. On the first floor, there is a narrow oblong window with horizontal glazing bars under a hoodmould above the porch, and above that, a circular panel displaying a monogrammed shield in the gable. To either side of the porch are cross-windows with horizontal glazing bars. The house also features a string course, a low coped parapet, raised coped gables, and end stacks with decorative bands. Panelled doors are set under flat gauged brick arches leading to the screen walls.

The cottages are characterized by five-light mullioned-and-transomed windows with horizontal glazing bars on their front facades, also featuring hoodmoulds with face-stops and shaped kneelers. A brick garden wall separates the cottages, adorned with moulded copings and central octagonal piers.