Merryvale House

Merryvale House is a former farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with a stack and parlour addition added around 1600. It was restored in the 1930s. The building is timber framed and rendered, featuring a thatched roof that is hipped over the service end to the left. It has a three-cell, cross-entry layout and stands two storeys high with an attic. The house has various 20th-century casement windows, along with the remains of a small upper window from around 1600 located below the stack. The entrance features a 20th-century plank door and a gabled porch made from reused timbers, with a two-centred entrance arch that was originally a medieval doorway; these timbers are believed to have come from a house in Easton. The stack retains its original axial shaft, while a later gable stack is positioned to the left.

Inside, some studding is exposed, and there are reverse-curved braces from the earlier phase of construction. There is an incomplete diamond-mullioned window in the hall chamber, as well as a blocked four-centre arched service doorway, with evidence of another doorway. The hall ceiling features very heavy plain joists, which are only partially exposed; the bridging beam has a shafted soffit and is knee-braced to the wall posts. An arched-braced cambered tie beam is present over the hall chamber. The roof is of coupled-rafter form and remains intact over the upper bay of the hall, where it shows signs of soot. The rest of the roof, which is unsooted, has largely been rebuilt. The timbers in the upper bay of the hall chamber are also sooted, indicating that an original timber flue extended only to the first floor level. The parlour end has a contemporary upper ceiling and a clasped purlin roof, along with an intact fireplace in the parlour chamber and two small 17th-century cupboards beside the hall fireplace.