Mere New Hall

It was built in 1834 for Peter Langford Brooke to replace Mere Old Hall, the architect being Thomas Johnson of Lichfield.

It was a large symmetrical house in Elizabethan style, constructed in brick and decorated with diapering.

However the house proved to be too large for the family and they returned to the Old Hall in 1914, letting the New Hall initially to George Smith Ollerenshaw and his wife Hannah who opened it to Belgian officers wounded in World War One.

In 1975 most of the building was destroyed by fire, although a fragment of it remains, together with a modern extension.

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