GRADE I Listed Buildings
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Yotes Court Mereworth Road (north side) Country house. Circa 1656-58. Listed Grade I as a very early example of the type of country house that became dominant after the Restoration. As a building of importance and quality of the Commonwealth period it has great rarity value.
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Mereworth Castle
The Long Gallery ceiling and doorway at Mereworth Castle
Mereworth Castle Maidstone Road (south side) Main block with moat walls to north. House by Colen Campbell. Roofed 1723. Based on the Villa Capra near Vicenza of circa 1565 by the famous Italian architect Andreas Palladio, and considered to be the first and finest building of the 18th century neo-Palladian revival in Great Britain.
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Pavilion to north east of Mereworth Castle Maidstone Road (south side) Pavilion circa 1740-5.
Pavilion to the north west and stables of Mereworth Castle. Maidstone Road (south side) Pavilion circa 1740-50. No interiors survive. Stables to west
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GRADE II Listed buildings
The Bull House Maidstone Road (north side). Formerly the Laundry for Mereworth Castle. Late C18.
Childeric Cottage and Childeric House Maidstone Road (north side) Formerly listed as The Road House
Farmhouse C17. Brewers Hall Farmhouse Maidstone Road (north side) Hall house. Late C15. East wing timber-framed with west wing of brick added in early C19.
The Cross Malling Road (west side) at junction of The Street and Malling Road. House formerly an Inn. C18.
Barn to east of Yotes Court Malling Road (north side). Formerly listed as Stables with Yotes Court. Barn. Mid C17
The Octagon Mereworth Road (south side).
The Octagon
Libbits Cottages Seven Mile Lane (west side) Cottage. Early C19. Included as good example of modest domestic building of traditional regional type
Mere House The Street (south side) Formerly The Rectory. House 1780 by Nicholas Revett, builder Luffman Atterbury, altered early C19 and 1876. Now includes a Victorian garden.
Mere House
Springfield The Street (north side) Cottage C.18
Black Lion House The Street (north side) Formerly the Black Lion Public House. House. C18.
No. 91 The Street (north side) Cottage C. 18
No. 95 The Street (north side) Cottage C18. – Fire Insurance mark. Included as a good example of modest domestic building of traditional regional type
The Malt House The Street (north side) House. Early C19
The Malt House
Nos 137-139 (odd) Also known as Nos 1 and 2 Yew Tree Cottages The Street (north side) Cottage pair. C18.
Nos 276 and 278 The Street (south side) House possibly C17 framed structure with early C19 front.
Moorcock’s Farmhouse Butcher’s Lane (west side) Farmhouse C17. much altered in C18.
Moorcock’s Farm
No 103 (Herne Cottage) Butcher’s Lane (west side) Cottage C18.
Farm building Butcher’s Lane (west side) 20 yards south-west of the Queen’s Head public house. Granary. C19 included for group value
The Queen’s Head Public House Butcher’s Lane (west side) Public House C18. No longer operating as a pub – Now converted into housing
Nos 196 and 198 Butchers Lane (east side) Formerly nos 32 and 33. Pair of C16 cottages
No 218 (Rose Cottage) Butcher’s Lane (east side) Hall house, now house. C16
Nos 222 and 224 Butcher’s Lane (east side) C18 house, now divided.
No 183 Butcher’s Lane (west side) Late C18 cottage.
Holly Cottage Butcher’s Lane (east side) Mid C19 cottage
Highlands House Willow Wents (south side) House. Early mid C19
Lodge on east side of drive to Mereworth Castle Maidstone Road (north side) Entrance Lodge Mid C18. Matches west lodge
Lodge on west side of drive to Mereworth Castle Maidstone Road (north side) Entrance lodge mid C18. Matches east lodge
Kitchen garden wall and The Bothy to the north of Mereworth Castle Maidstone Road (north side) Red brick kitchen garden wall. Late C18. The Bothy Mid C19 cottage
Mereworth War Memorial -First World War memorial of around 1920 with additional later plaque. Stone with slate plaque. Free standing stone tablet with shouldered and rock-hewn surround – inscribed with the names of 141 Mereworth combatants who served in the First World War The names of the 21 who fell in the conflict are marked with a cross. At the top of the tablet there is an inscribed dedication in PERPETUAL HONOUR OF MEREWORTH MEN WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918. At the foot of the memorial there is a later wedge-shaped stone, which is faced with a slate plaque. It is inscribed with AND LEST WE FORGET THE FALLEN 1929-1945 and the names of the nine Mereworth combatants who died in the Second World War.
Mereworth War Memorial – Grade II Listed building