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Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West of Merton Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Merton, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5431 / 52°32'34"N

Longitude: 0.813 / 0°48'46"E

OS Eastings: 590853

OS Northings: 297629

OS Grid: TL908976

Mapcode National: GBR RBS.GCW

Mapcode Global: VHKBV.1BPV

Plus Code: 9F42GRV7+66

Entry Name: Merton Hall Shellhouse 340 Metres West South West of Merton Hall

Listing Date: 30 April 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1076781

English Heritage Legacy ID: 220158

ID on this website: 101076781

Location: Broadflash, Breckland, Norfolk, IP25

County: Norfolk

District: Breckland

Civil Parish: Merton

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Merton St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

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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

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