Description

ST75SE RODE CP STRAIGHT LANE (East side)

4/423 Merfield House

11.3.68

GV II*

Country House, c 1810 for Node family. Brick construction, ashlar frontage, moulded cornices, plain parapets with
copings, hipped slate roof, 3 ashlar stacks with moulded caps. Symmetrical garden front of three units, 3 storey
semi-circular bowed centre of 3 bays, 2-storey single bay wing to each side; panelled corner pilasters to each side and
between the units; sash windows with glazing bars, tall 3-light casement windows with marginal lights to ground floor
of centre 3 bays; plain first floor band. Door opening in left return of 3 bays, paired half-glazed doors with marginal
lights; single storey projecting flat-roofed ashlar porch, pair of Grecian columns supporting an entablature with
triglyphs and a moulded cornice. Interior retains many original features including much decorative plaster work,
particularly to stair well where the cornice is decorated with triglyphs and guttae; the external bow of the centre 3
bays is reflected in a corresponding curve to the rear walls of the centre rooms of the house on the first and ground
floors.

Listing NGR: ST7992353604

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552947

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)