Merriams Farm Cottages

Merriams Farm Cottages is a house row that dates back to the 15th century, with later alterations from the 19th century. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor partly covered in painted brick and the rest pebble-dashed. The right half of the main range is constructed from 19th-century red brick, partly in Flemish bond, and it features a plain tile roof. The cottages are positioned at right angles to the road and set well back from it.

The structure has two storeys, with an attic on the right side. The two left end bays project slightly forward from the rest of the building; the right bay has an underbuilt jetty supported by a plain dragon post, while the added left bay is jettied and has a stone pier on the left. The roof is hipped with a gablet on the left and a change in level between the two left end bays and the rest of the building.

There is a projecting stone stack with two diagonally set rendered brick flues on the left end, a projecting brown brick stack and a gault brick stack on the front elevation, a multiple red brick stack on the rear slope of the roof towards the centre of the main range, and a red brick stack at the rear on the right end. A dormer is located in the right hip of the roof.

The fenestration is irregular, featuring six windows: two three-light 19th-century casements in the left two bays, two 19th-century three-light windows with round-headed lights beneath wood hood-moulds in the left half of the main range, a single light window from the 20th century, and a four-light 19th-century Gothick window in the right half of the main range. The doors are half-glazed and panelled, located to the right end of the left bay, beneath the main stack, and accessed by two steps. There is a rendered stair turret behind the main stack. The interior has not been inspected.