Description

LONG MARSTON

SP1548 MAIN STREET
1912-1/13/101 (West side)
02/08/72 The Grange

GV II

House. C17 with main block of early C19. Main part: brick
faced with roughcast; slate roof with roughcast end stacks.
Wing: dressed stone and rubble with ashlar dressings; stone
slate roof with brick rear lateral stacks. L-plan.
EXTERIOR: main part of 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range.
Top modillioned brick cornice. Windows have sills and 8/8
sashes. Gabled roof. 2-storey earlier wing projects to right,
with entrance with C20 glazed door to left end, and a gabled
brick dormer above; coped gable end has 1st floor 3-light
recessed chamfered-mullioned window with labelmould.
Left return has C20 window to each floor; 2-storey rear wing
has top modillioned brick cornice and round-headed entrance
with doorcase with reeded pilasters and simple consoles to
open pediment, 6-panelled door with 4 glazed panels.
Rear has former rubble gable end in larger brick gable end;
windows with 3-light and 2-light leaded casements with iron
opening casements; behind wing a projecting lateral stack with
offsets and some exposed stone to left; to left of wing the
rear of earlier range has small chamfered light to left of
former chamfered-mullioned window with labelmould, now with
inserted leaded casement; 3-light recessed chamfered-mullioned
window above has part leaded glazing.
Right return has 3 segmental-headed windows with 5-light and
3-light wooden C20 glazing, one 2-light pegged casement; gable
end to right has coping and brick end stack; small light and
2-light single-chamfered mullioned window to 1st floor and
ashlar blind bull's eye with rusticated surround and cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but noted as having early C19
staircase with turned newel.

Listing NGR: SP1528348284

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662641

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)