A sixteenth-century farmhouse
Weir Farmhouse stands at East Road and Shop Lane in East Mersea. It is a timber-framed H-plan house dating from the sixteenth century or earlier. The house was Grade II listed on 27 January 1982.
The timber frame is partly plastered and partly concealed by later red-brick casing and black weatherboarding. The hall frontage and east wing are cased in Flemish-bonded red brick, while the west wing is weatherboarded. The pitched roofs are covered in clay pegtiles; the hall has a central stack and the wings have additional chimneys.
The farmhouse has a central chimney above the hall range and further stacks serving the wings. The mixture of sash and casement windows, together with the brick facing on the hall and east wing, shows how the older timber-framed building was altered while remaining in use.
The projecting west wing
The west wing has a jettied upper floor faced in black weatherboarding. Both floors have sliding-sash windows, while the main hall frontage is faced with red brick and has a central door of six fielded panels. Two casements stand to the right of the door and two sashes to the left. The east gable also has sash windows; the rear elevations are weatherboarded.