Merle Common House

Merle Common House is a house dating from the 16th century, with 19th-century extensions and 20th-century restoration. It features a timber frame set on a rubblestone plinth, with stone cladding on the ground floor to the right, brick infill in the center and left, and tile hanging above. The roof is plain tiled and half hipped, with a gablet to the right; there is a ridge stack at the center and end stacks on both the left and right. The house has two storeys, with a half hipped projecting bay at the right end and a hipped wing in the center. The first floor has four wood mullioned, leaded, casement windows. There is a planked and ribbed door located on the right side of the central porch wing, which has a left-hand return front, and the infill is made of wattle and render.