Merry Hall
MERRY HALL, AGATES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028681
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MERRY HALL, AGATES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1028681
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRY HALL, AGATES LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MERRY HALL, AGATES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17741 58044
Details
ASHTEAD AGATES LANE TQ/15/NE (east side) 3/5
2.4.70 Merry Hall
GV II
House. Probably later C18 (chimney at rear inscribed 1788); altered and enlarged. Red brick in Flemish bond, slate roof. Rectangular double-depth plan with addition at left end and rear wing to this. The principal element is 2 storeys and 4 bays, with basement and attic: the high basement, treated as a chamfered plinth, has a 2-light casement window in the 4th bay; the ground floor has a doorway (up 6 steps protected by stick-baluster railings) offset left of centre, with a wooden open-pedimented doorcase composed of fluted Tuscan pilasters with triglyph entablatures, and 8-panel door (top panels now glazed) under a semi-elliptical fanlight with keyed surround (glazing altered); both floors have four 12-pane unhorned sashed windows with exposed boxes and gauged brick heads, but those at 1st floor are irregularly disposed, with one over the door and one placed centrally to the left. Bracketed wooden eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 flat-roofed dormers which have 6-pane horned sashes. Side-wall chimney to the right. Attached at the left end is a late C19 2-bay addition which has tripartite sashes on both floors, a matching cornice, and hipped roof with 2 chimneys on the front slope. The right-hand return wall has one window on each floor to the rear, matching those at the front. The rear has inter alia 2 extruded chimney stacks (that on the left with "1788" inscribed on a brick above eaves level), a sashed stairwindow, and 2 dormers in the roof; and a small conservatory and single-storey outbuilding are attached to the rear wing. Interior: altered, but contains open-well staircase with stick balusters, and cellar with wine bins.
Listing NGR: TQ1774158044
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290387
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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