Merry Hall

Merry Hall is a house, likely built in the late 18th century, with a chimney at the rear inscribed with the year 1788. It has been altered and enlarged over time. The structure is made of red brick in Flemish bond and features a slate roof. The building has a rectangular double-depth plan, with an addition at the left end and a rear wing.

The main part of the house is two storeys high and consists of four bays, with a basement and attic. The high basement, which serves as a chamfered plinth, includes a 2-light casement window in the fourth bay. On the ground floor, there is a doorway, accessed by six steps and protected by stick-baluster railings, located left of centre. This doorway is framed by a wooden open-pedimented doorcase with fluted Tuscan pilasters and triglyph entablatures, leading to an eight-panel door (with the top panels now glazed) beneath a semi-elliptical fanlight with a keyed surround, although the glazing has been altered.

Both floors feature four 12-pane unhorned sash windows with exposed boxes and gauged brick heads. The first-floor windows are arranged irregularly, with one positioned above the door and another centrally to the left. The building has a bracketed wooden eaves cornice and a hipped roof with two flat-roofed dormers that contain 6-pane horned sashes. There is a side-wall chimney on the right.

Attached to the left end of the house is a late 19th-century two-bay addition, which has tripartite sashes on both floors, a matching cornice, and a hipped roof with two chimneys on the front slope. The right-hand return wall features one window on each floor, matching those at the front. The rear of the house includes two extruded chimney stacks (one of which has "1788" inscribed on a brick above eaves level), a sashed stair window, and two dormers in the roof. Additionally, there is a small conservatory and a single-storey outbuilding attached to the rear wing.

Inside, the house has been altered but still contains an open-well staircase with stick balusters and a cellar with wine bins.