Mere New Hall stood to the east of of the village of Mere

Mere, Cheshire

Mere is a civil parish and linear village along the A556 road in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, North West England, about south-west of Altrincham. Bucklow Hill is at its northeast end, and the Mere crossroads is at the far end. The village of Mere is...

 and the junction of the A566 and A50 road

A50 road

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s in Cheshire

Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...

, England. It was built in 1834 for Peter Langford Brooke to replace Mere Old Hall

Mere Old Hall

Mere Old Hall stands to the west of the village of Mere and the junction of the A566 and A50 roads in Cheshire, England. An earlier house on the site was rebuilt in the 17th century by Peter Brooke, a son of the Brookes of Norton Priory, who had bought the house from the Mere family...

, the architect being Thomas Johnson of Lichfield

Lichfield

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. It was a large symmetrical house in Elizabethan

Elizabethan architecture

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 style, constructed in brick and decorated with diapering

Diapering

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. Its features included a porte-cochère

Porte-cochere

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, turret

Turret

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s, and shaped gable

Gable

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s. However the house proved to be too large for the family and they returned to the Old Hall in 1914, selling the New Hall which became a country club. In the 1970s most of the building was destroyed by fire. A fragment of it remains, together with a modern extension. As of 2011 it is a golf resort and a spa. There are two structures associated with the house that have been designated by English Heritage

English Heritage

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 as Grade II listed buildings. These are the stable block, and the entrance arch and gates.