Description

ST 61 SE CAUNDLE MARSH NEW LANE

2/78 27-8-76 Marsh Court

GV II

Country house, core probably of 1731 with extensive remodelling and
wings of 1910. 1910 work by Macpherson and Richardson. Neo-Georgian,
somewhat in the style of Macartney. Coursed rubble walls, with
rusticated ashlar quoins and ashlar dressings. Stone slated hipped
roof with end and central stone stacks. 2 storeys and attic, 9 bays,
2:5:2. C2O sashes with glazing bars in ashlar architraves. Central
bay bears a centrepiece which may be original. This consists of a
door with ashlar architrave and pedimental hood on carved brackets
above which is an ashlar panel containing 2 arched lights and flanked
by carved side scrolls. To the rear are 2 stone mullioned windows,
possibly of the C17, reset. The central stack bears an inscription
DGM 1731. Internally there is a wide staircase of 1910 with twisted
balusters.
RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 56, no 8. Newman J and Pevsner, N. The
Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972, pp 132-3.

Listing NGR: ST6768013823

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26412268

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northumberland (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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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)