Marsh Court

Marsh Court, Marsh Court Road, Stockbridge, SO20 6JB

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1093803
Date first listed:: 29-May-1957
List Entry Name:: Marsh Court
Statutory Address:: Marsh Court, Marsh Court Road, Stockbridge, SO20 6JB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1093803
Date first listed:: 29-May-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: Marsh Court
Statutory Address 1:: Marsh Court, Marsh Court Road, Stockbridge, SO20 6JB

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Marsh Court, Marsh Court Road, Stockbridge, SO20 6JB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: Test Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Kings Somborne
National Grid Reference:: SU 35660 33594

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 December 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

SU 3533 13/2 KINGS SOMBORNE MARSH COURT ROAD Marsh Court (formerly lissted as Marshcourt School, MARSHCOURT, previously listed as Marshcourt)

29/5/57

GV I 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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 140749
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 313
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1932), 316 354
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1932), 378
'Arts Council of Great Britain Catalogue' in The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens 1889-1944, (1981)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 19 Hampshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.