Marsden House

Marsden House is a farmhouse dating from the early 19th century, with a wing from the mid-17th century. It features roughcast red brick and a stone slate roof, while the 17th-century section is made of coursed sandstone beneath a cement-tile roof. The building has two storeys, cellars, and attics, with a three-bay front and a wing extending to the rear left, along with an outshut in the angle.

The entrance front includes a swept verandah supported by various wooden posts, which covers a central door with margin glazing and a fanlight featuring radial glazing bars, all set in a wooden doorcase with an open pediment. Flanking the entrance are canted bay windows with unequally-hung 20-pane sashes, although the central sash on the left has been altered. On the first floor, there are 16-pane sashes with projecting stone sills in flush wooden architraves. The building has brick stacks at each end and on the ridge of the wing.

At the rear, there is a tall stair window with old leaded lights, and a matching window on the ground floor to the right. An early 19th-century outhouse near the rear door has exposed brickwork and features a door on the left with a 2-light horizontally-sliding sash on each floor. The 17th-century part of the house has blocked 4-light double-chamfered mullion windows on the north gable and similar windows on the east side, with 5 and 3 lights that retain old leaded lights and iron window bars.

Inside, the main house features decorative tiling on the hall floor and six-panel doors within corniced wooden architraves. There is an open segmental-pedimented doorway leading to the stair hall, which contains a staircase with stick balusters and turned newels, twinned at the half-landings, and a ramped handrail. Some plain fireplace surrounds are present. The 17th-century cell has two quadrant-moulded beams and some exposed ceiling joists, while the ground floor includes a 19th-century kitchen with stone flags, a stone sink, and a cast-iron range. A ledged and boarded door from the 17th century leads to the first floor. A brick addition to the left of the main house and an adjoining embattled wall on the right are not of special interest.