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

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