Mertyn Downing

Mertyn Downing is a 2-storey, 3-window house dating from 1675, with pebble-dashed walls and a slate roof featuring a tall central ridge stack and a smaller 19th-century stack on the right end. The central doorway, framed in dressed stone with a Tudor arch, is engraved with "1675 RKP" and has a partially obscured former hood mould. The door itself is an early 18th-century design with fielded panels. The windows are mid-20th-century metal-framed casements. On the right gable end, there is a 2-light casement window in the upper storey.

At the rear, the main range has late 19th-century windows, including a 2-light casement in the larder on the lower left, a 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash window on the upper left, and a 9-pane sash window in the center. To the right is a gabled rear wing with an end stack. The north side features a single-storey lean-to with three boarded doors; the right-hand door led to the bake house, which retains a small 2-light window and a reduced stack. Above the lean-to, there is a fixed small-pane metal-framed window that lights the stair. The south side wall has two mid-19th-century 9-pane hornless sash windows on the lower storey and an inserted metal-framed window above.

The house has a lobby-entry plan with back-to-back fireplaces. The room on the left side of the entrance features a stone chimneypiece, likely from 1675, with an ovolo-moulded surround and a lintel supported by corbels, topped with a wave-moulded cornice beneath the ceiling. This room also retains a joist-beam ceiling with stop-chamfered spine beams and run-out stops. The right room has a simpler but larger fireplace with a timber lintel, probably from 1642. An additional unit at the right end is 19th-century with thinner walls and includes a larder with a flagstone floor. The staircase in the rear wing has winders at the top and a landing with plain newels and balusters from the mid-19th century. The upper storey corridor is also a mid-19th-century alteration, featuring most of the current boarded doors with Norfolk latches.