Mere House

Mere House is an 18th-century house, possibly with an earlier core, located in Seething. It is constructed of brick with gault brick dressings and features a glazed black pantile roof. The house has a three-cell plan and likely includes an 18th-century extension at the rear. The facade consists of seven bays and is two storeys high. The ground floor has 20th-century cross-casements set under rubbed brick arches, with gault brick keystones and moulded gault brick flat pediments. There are bands of gault brick between the bays and gault brick pilasters between the second and third bays and the fifth and sixth bays.

The central doorcase is adorned with fluted pilasters and a keystone above the door, which has an architrave with guttae, a frieze with metopes, and a cornice and pediment featuring dentils. The door itself has six raised and fielded panels, with the top two being glazed. The first floor has seven casements, with an inset panel below that includes a central gault brick strip and gault brick reveals to the window above the door. The house has an off-centre axial stack and a gable end stack, with a platband on the gable walls. Originally, the roof was hipped, but the gable has since been built up with later bricks.

Inside, there is an 18th-century pine staircase with turned balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The ceiling of the stairwell features a plaster roundel encircling an angel's head and wings, with stylised flowers at the cardinal points. There is one avolo moulded transverse beam on the ground floor, and the plaster coving is cut by a later partition.