Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1980. House.
Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls
- WRENN ID
- sombre-lantern-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1980
- Type
- House
- Address
- Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls, Canford Magna
- OS grid reference
- SZ 031 982
- Coordinates
- 50.78343, -1.9561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merley Court is a house dating from the late 18th century, which was remodelled in the late 19th century. It is constructed of rendered brick with brick details and stone dressings, featuring an English garden wall bond front wall, brick ridge and left-hand gable stacks, and a tiled roof that is hipped to the right. The house has a single-depth, three-room plan with a left-hand extension and stands two storeys high with an attic. The front facade has a three-to-one window arrangement, with a brick eaves cornice. The entrance features sidelights and a fanlight, and it connects to the front gateway by a conservatory. The windows include 19th-century labels and quoins around recessed sashes. Notably, a right-hand ground-floor tripartite window has 6/6-pane sashes flanked by 4/4-pane sashes, while the first floor has 3/6-pane sashes. The extension features a segmental-arched ground-floor 3/6-pane sash with a label, and a plain surround to a first-floor 3/6-pane sash. Three hipped dormers with 3/3-pane sashes and decorative ridge tiles are also present. The extension has a two-window left-hand return. The interior has not been inspected.
The property includes a notable late 18th-century brick front gateway, which features a pair of pilasters supporting a dentil cornice, matching dentil coping, and a central raised section with further coping. It has a rubbed brick flat arch leading to a 19th-century six-panel door. The wall extends approximately 20 meters to the north and south from the cornice level, ramping down each side with dentilled moulded coping, and connects to the front entrance by a covered way.
Local climate
Merley Court and Attached Front Gateway and Walls receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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