Marsh Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1976. Country house.

Marsh Court

WRENN ID
nether-spindle-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1976
Type
Country house
Address
Marsh Court, New Lane, Caundle Marsh
OS grid reference
ST 676 138
Coordinates
50.92294, -2.4612
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Marsh Court is a country house, with its core likely dating from 1731, featuring extensive remodelling and wings added in 1910. The 1910 work was carried out by architects Macpherson and Richardson, and the building is designed in a Neo-Georgian style, somewhat reminiscent of Macartney. The exterior is made of coursed rubble walls, with rusticated ashlar quoins and ashlar dressings. It has a stone slated hipped roof with end and central stone stacks. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has nine bays arranged in a 2:5:2 pattern. The windows are 20th-century sashes with glazing bars set in ashlar architraves. The central bay features a prominent centerpiece that may be original, consisting of a door with an ashlar architrave and a pedimental hood on carved brackets, above which is an ashlar panel containing two arched lights flanked by carved side scrolls. At the rear, there are two stone mullioned windows, possibly from the 17th century, that have been reset. The central stack has an inscription reading "DGM 1731." Inside, there is a wide staircase from 1910 with twisted balusters.

Local climate

Marsh Court receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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