Description

TL 99 NW
SP 4/70 5

MERTON
MERTON PARK
Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 metres west south west of Merton Hall

II

Garden house. Circa 1846 by Edward Blore, architect.
Brick with some stone dressings. Interior faced entirely with seashells. Corrugated tile roof. Tudor style. Single storey with clasping polygonal buttresses to each angle surmounted by stone pepperpot finials. Crowstep gables with pepperpot apex finials. Entrance in gable-end with 4-centred arch of timber forming spandrels. Part-glazed panelled door. Ovolo-moulded arched flanking windows with a similar larger window in gable. 5 similar blind arches to one gutter wall. 2 cusped Gothic windows with oculi in between to other side covered by wooden shutters. Moulded brick dentil cornices. Rear gable-end with canted oriel window in timber. Crenellated parapet and pediments above the 3 shuttered openings.
Interior. Walls and roof entirely covered with seashells laid in varied patterns. Mosaic floor. Arched opening to oriel window.

Listing NGR: TL9085397629

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26342380

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Recommended Books

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)