Mere Farmhouse

Mere Farmhouse is a cottage dated 1733, with minor additions and alterations in later centuries. It is located in Cockshutt, Cheshire. The farmhouse is constructed of red brick with a slate roof and follows a three-unit baffle-entry plan, with a short range to the rear on the left forming an L-shape. It is a one-storey and attic building with a dentilled eaves cornice. There are segmental-headed casement windows to either side of a boarded front door. A gabled hood sits above the door, and contemporary gabled eaves dormers are directly above. A red brick ridge stack is positioned above the entrance, at the junction with the rear range. The rear range has a truncated external end stack with a lean-to base, likely housing a bread oven. A datestone on the right gable end of the main range appears to read "D/WN/1733," although it was largely illegible during a resurvey in January 1987. An inspection of the interior was not possible at that time, but the left ground-floor room was noted to have chamfered spine beams and heavy joists. A room to the right of the stack has two chamfered spine beams. The farmhouse is included as a dated and largely complete example of an early 18th-century cottage, exhibiting group value to the area.