Mere Farm House

Mere Farm House is a 17th-century house that was altered and significantly enlarged in the mid-19th century. The house is constructed of a mosaic of flint and brick with brick dressings, and has a pantile roof. It comprises a single range of four bays, with two storeys and an attic. A flint plinth is topped with brick. The main facade includes a two-storey, gabled projecting porch to the second bay, built of flint and brick with brick dressings and covered with pantiles. The brick doorway within the porch was altered in the mid-19th century and has a four-centred arch with a fanlight, featuring two vertical glazing bars, above imposts, leading to a ledged and battened door. The walls incorporate brickwork arranged in the form of hearts, and the upper part of the walls are faced with a different flint and brick coursed mosaic. All the windows are 19th-century, with tripartite sash windows to bays 1 and 3 of the ground floor, and sash windows to the fourth bay and first floor. There are two axial chimney stacks, with renewed diagonally set shafts and oversailing caps. The left-hand gable has been raised and features a projecting parapet, decorative brickwork in the shape of hearts, and a tripartite sash window to the ground floor, and sash windows to the first and attic floors. At the rear, a semi-circular headed sash window with glazing bars is centrally positioned, and there is a single-storey passage addition. Inside, the staircase has square balusters and a wreathed handrail, supported by a decorative cast iron newel post surrounded by four balusters. A three-bay, two-storey extension from the 19th century runs to the right, and a rear wing is of no particular interest.