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Mere Cottage and Attached Garden Wall Mere House and Attached Garden Wall

A Grade II Listed Building in Swanland, East Riding of Yorkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.739 / 53°44'20"N

Longitude: -0.4914 / 0°29'29"W

OS Eastings: 499602

OS Northings: 428012

OS Grid: SE996280

Mapcode National: GBR TT06.DD

Mapcode Global: WHGFP.F87Y

Plus Code: 9C5XPGQ5+HC

Entry Name: Mere Cottage and Attached Garden Wall Mere House and Attached Garden Wall

Listing Date: 7 February 1968

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1347027

English Heritage Legacy ID: 164812

ID on this website: 101347027

Location: Swanland, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU14

County: East Riding of Yorkshire

Civil Parish: Swanland

Built-Up Area: Swanland

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Riding of Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Swanland

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


SWANLAND MAIN STREET
SE 92 NE
(north side)
6/56 No 3 (Mere House and
No 5 (Mere Cottage) and
7.2.68 attached garden walls
- II
House and cottages and attached garden walls in single composition. c1840-
50 in Jacobethan style. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs.
House of 2 storeys, 3 bays with short projecting screen walls to cottages of
single storey and attics and 2 bays, the whole forming a symmetrical U-
shaped plan. House: centre bay taken up by a 2-storey projecting porch with
angle buttresses. 4-centred arched doorway under a brattished cornice
flanked to right and left by 4-light mullion-and-transom windows with
horizontal glazing bars under hoodmoulds with face-stops. First floor:
narrow oblong window with horizontal glazing bars under hoodmould to porch:
over that is a circular panel containing a monogrammed shield in the gable
of the porch. To right and left are cross-windows with horizontal glazing
bars. String course and low coped parapet. Raised coped gables, end stacks
with bands. Panelled doors under flat gauged brick arches to screen walls.
Cottages: 5-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, with horizontal glazing
bars, to front facades. Hoodmoulds with face-stops. Shaped kneelers.
Brick garden wall between cottages with moulded copings and central
octagonal piers.


Listing NGR: SE9960228012

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