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SU 3533
13/2

KINGS SOMBORNE
MARSH COURT ROAD
Marsh Court

(formerly lissted as Marshcourt School, MARSHCOURT, previously listed as Marshcourt)

29/5/57

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Large country house. 1901-5, extended 1924-6 by E L Lutyens for H Johnson. Clunch
chalk blocks, Portland stone, red brick and tiles, old plain tile roof.

Plan; of E-plan north entrance front consisting of corridoes on both floors of main range. Behind this taller south main range with south projecting wing at east (on left of entrance front) and service courtyard to east, not completed until 1905 and 1926 when behind, to south of this courtyard large ballroom built, extending east from south facade. North entrance front low and long is two storey of two heights, seven wide bays with wide wings projecting forward each end. Central two storey gabled porch. On ground floor archway of
Portland stone arch with key blocks curving inwards from it to detached arch supported off plinth walls inside main arch. Underneath vaulted in stone and tile squares. Above two-light casement above level of eaves either side. Either side three bays of blank centre bay except for chequered tile strip, each side paired three-light mullioned windows with similar over and two-light similar over centre bays. Hipped ends of wings have eaves raised over canted full height bays with paired cross-windows and paired two-light casements over. Tile chequerwork along inner of wings at ground floor window level. Windows all leaded.

Roofs hipped with moulded two or three shaft brick stacks on outer sides of wings near front and towards rear. On higher main roof large stack at right end of ridge, stack to right of centre and stack behind ridge immediately right of centre. South front taller, with vertical emphasis with several projecting bays and unsymmetrical with one projecting end wing and added tall roofed ballroom beyond it. Service court yard in brick and much more vernacular.

Interior much as built

(c.f.CountyLife photographs) Country Life; Vol 71; 1932 p 316, p 354, p 378. Buildings of England, Hampshire; Penguin; N Pevsner; 1966; p313-3. Lutyens; Arts Council Catalogue; 1981; p103-106.
Listing NGR: SU3576130748

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Marshcourt at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17528546

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)