My map now has 10,000 - 50,000 draw calls in this build.. why?

How you merged and reimported your meshes?
For example: Merged you “HouseA” and"HouseB" and renamed it to “HouseA” and pressed reimport in UE4?
When you go into the content folder, are your removed meshes there (remove them)?
Try to delete and import fresh, not reimport.
Restart editor before import.