Merry Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Mole Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1970. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
Merry Hall
- WRENN ID
- burning-lantern-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mole Valley
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1970
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Merry Hall, Agates Lane, KT21 2NG
- OS grid reference
- TQ 177 580
- Coordinates
- 51.30934, -0.31215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Merry Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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