Meeson Hall

Meeson Hall is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century. The front facade is rendered with a pebble-dash finish and a concrete parapet, built upon a sandstone and brick plinth that conceals three red brick gables behind. These gables suggest the building was originally formed from three separate houses, two to the right and one to the left. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there are brick end stacks to the gables. The house is three storeys high, with a four-bay front. The entrance is located in a lower extension to the north-east, featuring a six-panel door, an early 19th century pilastered portico, a semi-circular fanlight, and an open pediment. All the windows are 18th century glazing bar sashes with frames flush to the wall surface; the windows on the top floor are smaller, and include two ‘dummy’ windows to the left and one to the right.

Inside, there is an open string staircase dating from approximately 1750 to 1760, with three flights and a bow on the first landing. The balusters are turned wooden, in a vase shape. 18th century ventilated wooden cupboards with slatted vents are found on each floor, and there is oak panelling in the right-hand front room. A sandstone-walled cellar may indicate the presence of an earlier house on the site. A rainwater head on the front downpipe is inscribed "R/R E/ 1733." In front of the house is a 18th century semi-circular railed enclosure with urn finials.