Merley Hall Farmhouse

Merley Hall Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse, altered and with a western wing added in the late 18th century. It is rendered, with a large brick ridge stack, a gable stack, and a tiled roof. The house has an L-shaped plan, with a parallel extension to the east. It is two storeys and an attic, with a three-window range on the west side and a two-window range on the south side. The western range is rendered, with a large ridge stack, a boarded doorway, and late 18th-century 8/8-pane sash windows within flush frames. There are 20th-century 2:1-hipped casement dormers. The south elevation features a brick gable with a blocked opening at eaves level and a set-back brick gable in a late 18th-century Gothick style, with a sinuous parapet. This gable has a 4-centre-arched moulded doorway with double doors and narrow flanking lights, a similar first-floor chamfered 6/6-pane sash window, and a 2-centre-arched niche in the gable containing a standing figure. The eastern range is rendered and has 8/8-pane sash windows, including a single gable window. The interior reportedly contains an entrance stair hall featuring a late 17th-early 18th-century open-well staircase with turned balusters, square newels, a moulded rail, and a closed string. There is also reset 16th- and 17th-century panelling.