Merrist Wood House

Merrist Wood House is a country house, now serving as an agricultural college. It was designed in 1875 and built between 1876 and 1877 by Richard Norman Shaw for Charles Peyto Shrubb. The house was rebuilt after a fire in 1978. The construction incorporates snecked Bargate stone at the base, with ashlar dressings. The first floor is tile hung on the left-hand side, while the centre and right-hand sides feature close-stud half-timbering. The roof is hipped and covered in plain tiles.

The building is two storeys high, with the first floor jettied on a moulded bressumer. There are attics in the gables, and dormers to the left. Four stacks rise from the roof: a quadruple stack to the left, a larger stack with a corbelled top to the left of centre, a large stack to the front right on a stone plinth with a ribbed brick shaft and corbelled top, and one included in the right-hand return front. Two bays are set back to the left, with two five-light, hexagonal-pattern leaded casement windows each, set under tiled, pentice hoods on the first floor. Two two-light, stone-dressed, leaded casements are on the ground floor, alongside one four-light mullioned and transomed window. The first floor features two projecting four-light leaded casement windows to the left of the entrance, flanked by single-light casements. Below these are three windows arranged similarly, with two stone-dressed and one wood-framed. Two single-light casements are in the base of the stack to the ground floor right, culminating in a larger window to the right end. A projecting three-storey gabled porch is to the right of the centre, braced on the first floor with a heavily moulded bressumer over the ground floor. A continuous six-light window spans the width of the second and first floors of the porch. The arched entrance to the ground floor has heavy bracing to the posts and timber sides, with brick infill, and square-panelled doors.

The right-hand return front features a large, angle-bay hall window. The rear of the house has a projecting range to the right, with tile hanging across the first floor, leaded fenestration, and tall stacks.

The Great Hall was restored in 1978 to its full height. It is timber-framed with three bays and a Crown-post roof. The walls are panelled with billet decoration along the top, and a minstrels' gallery exists at one end, featuring turned ballusters. Twentieth-century extensions to the left are not included in the listing.