MARSHWOOD HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318759
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: MARSHWOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MARSHWOOD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318759
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: MARSHWOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MARSHWOOD HOUSE

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MARSHWOOD HOUSE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Dinton
National Grid Reference:: SU 00636 32590

Details

SU 03 SW DINTON MARSHWOOD (west side)

1/156 Marshwood House 23.3.60 II

Farmhouse. Late C17, wings added 1780s and early C19. Ashlar- fronted, English bond brick to wings and to rear, hipped tiled roofs with brick stacks. Two-storey, 5-window front. Central Tuscan porch with double 6-panelled doors, 2-light casement either side and three 2-light casements to first floor, flanking late C18 bays have 12-pane sashes to ground and first floor, moulded cornice to hipped roofs, C17 central range has late C18 front with plat band to castellated parapet, two hipped dormers with 2-light casements behind. Right return has 2-storey canted dressed limestone bay with 12-pane sashes, east rear wing has planked door, 2-light casement to left and 3-light wooden casement to right, 2- light and single-light casements to first floor. Left return has 2-storey canted bay with sashes and French windows, partly blocked windows to first floor, west wing has 2-light and 3-light casements to west side. Rear of main range has tall round-arched stair window, lower part now blocked; this inserted in raised C18 outshut, rear east wing has 2-light casements facing into courtyard and external stack on north gable, west wing has external brick stack facing courtyard with some light timber-framing to first floor; 3-light leaded casement to north gable. Interior: Central range remodelled C18, stairs in former outshut have two stick balusters per tread and shaped tread-ends, entrance hall has pilastered walls and elliptical arch leading to stair hall, flagstone floors, 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves. First floor south west room apparently unfinished with unplastered walls and no ceiling; C17 recessed chamfered window surround exposed in internal wall of this room, south east bedroom has Adam- style fireplace surround. C17 range retains 3-bay butt purlin roof and gable-end stacks. Marshwood reputedly occupied by the Wyndham family during the rebuilding of Phillips House (q.v.), additions and improvements made during 1780s and 1790s by-Edward Whatmore and Elizabeth Wyndham. (V.C.H., Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; Wiltshire Buildings Records unpublished material)

Listing NGR: SU0063632590

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Legacy System number:: 320742
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)

Legal

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