Marsh Court
MARSH COURT, NEW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118864
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Marsh Court
- Statutory Address:
- MARSH COURT, NEW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118864
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Marsh Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARSH COURT, NEW LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MARSH COURT, NEW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Caundle Marsh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67680 13823
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 56
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 132-133
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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