Mereworth House

Mereworth House is a late 17th or early 18th century farmhouse. The left section of the building is timber framed and clad with channelled render, while the right section has exposed timber framing with channelled render infilling. Both sections have plain tile roofs, with the right section slightly set back. A continuous rendered plinth runs along the base of the building. The right section has broadly-spaced timber framing, with full-height posts to the ends and two towards the centre, featuring a midrail, a lower rail and one almost straight arch brace. The left section has higher eaves and a ridge, with a half-hipped roof on the left and a gable on the right. The roof of the right section is half-hipped to the right. There is a slender projecting brick stack to the left gable end, and multiple red and grey brick stacks towards the centre of the left section. The windows are irregularly placed; the left section has three casements, including two three-light leaded casements, while the right section has one four-light casement. The left section has two three-light casements on the ground floor, and the right section has one sixteen-pane sash and one three-light mullioned window. A half-glazed door, with a flat corniced hood, is located up three steps, beneath a stack. A lean-to extension, rendered to the front and weatherboarded to the right end, extends to the right gable end of the right section, and incorporates a pump. A rear lean-to is also present on the right section. A two-storey turret is situated behind the left stack: it is timber framed with exposed posts to the ground floor, tile-hung to the first floor, and has a plain tile roof half-hipped to the rear. A narrow, gabled parallel rear range extends to the left. The interior of the house has not been inspected.