Description

SJ 98 NW MARPLE BUXTON ROAD
(south side, off) High Lane

6/219 Marsden House

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C19 with mid C17 wing. Roughcast red brick, stone slate roof;
the C17 part is coursed sandstone under cement-tile roof. 2 storeys with cellars
and attics, 3-bay front with wing to rear-left and outshut in angle. Irregular
additions to rear left include a 2-storey, single-cell Cl7 cottage adjoined by
an early C19 outhouse. Entrance front: swept verandah on various wooden posts
covers central, 'margin-glazed door and fanlight with radial glazing bars in wooden
doorcase with open pediment; flanking canted bay-windows have unequally-hung 20-pane
sashes (central sash on left altered). 1st floor: projecting stone sills to 16-pane
sashes in flush wooden architraves. Brick stacks to each end and to ridge of wing.
Rear: tall stair window with old leaded lights; matching window to ground-floor
on right. Early C19 outhouse near rear door has exposed brickwork and door on
left of a 2-light horizontally-sliding sash to each floor. To its rear is the
C17 part having blocked 4-light double-chamfered mullion windows to each floor
on the north gable and similar windows on east side of 5 and 3 lights which retain
old leaded lights and iron window bars. Interior: main house has decorative tiling
to hall floor and 6-panel doors in corniced wooden architraves; open segmental-
pedimented doorway through to stair hall; staircase with stick balusters and turned
newels twinned at the half-landings; ramped handrail. Some plain fireplace sur-
rounds. C17 cell has 2 quadrant-moulded beams and some exposed ceiling joists;
the ground-floor forms a C19 kitchen with stone flags, stone sink and cast-iron
range; C17 ledged, boarded door to 1st floor. Brick addition to left of main house
and adjoining embattled wall on right are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SJ9461685289

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26605533

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair