Site Event/Activity record ECH6530 - Mere Old Hall - Research and Recording

Summary A late 18th/ early 19th century Hall with subsequent additions and alterations, with gardens, stables, walled former kitchen garden and model farm (now converted to domestic and business use), set within parkland enclosed by woodland belts. The Hall is situated on the site of an earlier hall that was probably moated and had a formal avenue from which a pond, veteran tree and tree stumps remain together with an area of wood pasture. Principal Remaining Features Hall – listed Grade II Stables with clock tower over entrance Home Farm Gardener’s cottage Kitchen garden walls – listed Grade II Landscape park Ornamental garden Drives Pond – remains of former moat Tree Avenue - of lime and chestnut trees Tree belts - forming boundary woodlands Plantations Wood pasture Veteran oak tree