Mersham Manor

Mersham Manor is a house dating from the early to mid 14th century, with alterations from the late 18th century and an extension built in the mid 19th century. It is constructed of ragstone, painted on the entrance elevation, and extended with ragstone and red brick dressings. The roof is covered in plain tiles. Originally a hall house, the house retains that plan. The entrance elevation is two storeys and an attic, featuring a tall hipped roof with gablets, a hipped dormer, and stacks in the roof to the rear right and at the end of the left-hand valley of the gabled 19th-century extension. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with a tripartite sash on each floor to the right, a single glazing bar sash to each floor in the 19th-century wing, and a small light in the upper left corner. A central glazed door provides access. The rear elevation includes a blocked through-passage opening with hollow and roll mouldings, a stone-jambed light with an ogee-headed window above, which illuminates the solar, and a large, restored hall window with a mullion and transom and a cusped traceried head with concave-sided hexagons. A sash window is present in the 19th-century wing, with boarded doors below. The rear elevation details became clearer after the removal of later stacks. Internally, most of the internal divisions have been altered, and the 19th-century wing replaces a lost service wing. A scissor-braced roof remains. The building is of group value.