Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West Of Merton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1986. Garden house.
Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West Of Merton Hall
- WRENN ID
- lunar-railing-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1986
- Type
- Garden house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 99 NW SP 4/70 5
MERTON MERTON PARK Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 metres west south west of Merton Hall
II
Garden house. Circa 1846 by Edward Blore, architect. Brick with some stone dressings. Interior faced entirely with seashells. Corrugated tile roof. Tudor style. Single storey with clasping polygonal buttresses to each angle surmounted by stone pepperpot finials. Crowstep gables with pepperpot apex finials. Entrance in gable-end with 4-centred arch of timber forming spandrels. Part-glazed panelled door. Ovolo-moulded arched flanking windows with a similar larger window in gable. 5 similar blind arches to one gutter wall. 2 cusped Gothic windows with oculi in between to other side covered by wooden shutters. Moulded brick dentil cornices. Rear gable-end with canted oriel window in timber. Crenellated parapet and pediments above the 3 shuttered openings. Interior. Walls and roof entirely covered with seashells laid in varied patterns. Mosaic floor. Arched opening to oriel window.
Listing NGR: TL9085397629
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