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

SWANLAND MAIN STREET SE 92 NE (north side) 6/56 No 3 (Mere House and No 5 (Mere Cottage) and 7.2.68 attached garden walls - II House and cottages and attached garden walls in single composition. c1840- 50 in Jacobethan style. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. House of 2 storeys, 3 bays with short projecting screen walls to cottages of single storey and attics and 2 bays, the whole forming a symmetrical U- shaped plan. House: centre bay taken up by a 2-storey projecting porch with angle buttresses. 4-centred arched doorway under a brattished cornice flanked to right and left by 4-light mullion-and-transom windows with horizontal glazing bars under hoodmoulds with face-stops. First floor: narrow oblong window with horizontal glazing bars under hoodmould to porch: over that is a circular panel containing a monogrammed shield in the gable of the porch. To right and left are cross-windows with horizontal glazing bars. String course and low coped parapet. Raised coped gables, end stacks with bands. Panelled doors under flat gauged brick arches to screen walls. Cottages: 5-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, with horizontal glazing bars, to front facades. Hoodmoulds with face-stops. Shaped kneelers. Brick garden wall between cottages with moulded copings and central octagonal piers.

Listing NGR: SE9960228012