Merrimeade Hotel

Merrimeade Hotel is a hotel built in the mid-19th century, with 20th-century extensions. It features plastered stone rubble and stone rubble or brick stacks topped with 19th-century brick, all under a slate roof. The building faces northwest and is set back from the street on a terrace. The main house has a double-depth plan with front and back rooms on either side of a central passage that includes the main stair in the rear section. The rooms are heated by gable-end stacks. There is a 20th-century restaurant and hotel extension to the rear and right, with the right wing likely converted from the original stables and service wing. The hotel is two storeys tall with cellars.

The exterior of the main block features a symmetrical three-window front with 16 panes arranged around a central doorway, which has a six-panel door and overlight with glazing bars, panelled reveals, and a flat-roofed timber porch supported by tapering panelled posts and a moulded entablature. The plasterwork is lightly incised to resemble ashlar, and deep eaves are supported by a series of shaped brackets. The roof is gable-ended, and each end wall has a central first-floor window with a pointed head. Inside, the hotel retains much original joinery and detail, including an open string geometric stair with stick balusters.