Marshwood House

Marshwood House is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with significant additions from the 1780s and the early 19th century. The front of the house is faced with ashlar, while the wings are constructed of English bond brick, with tiled hipped roofs and brick stacks. The main two-storey, five-window front features a central Tuscan porch with double six-panelled doors, flanked by two-light casement windows. Above, there are three two-light casements to the first floor, and further sashes to the flanking 18th-century bays, with a moulded cornice to the hipped roofs. The central 17th-century range has an 18th-century front featuring a plat band to a castellated parapet, and two hipped dormers with two-light casements behind. A right-hand return features a two-storey canted bay with twelve-pane sashes. The east rear wing has a planked door, two-light casement, a three-light wooden casement, and two-light and single-light casements to the first floor. The left return has a two-storey canted bay with sashes and French windows, with some blocked windows to the first floor. A west wing has two-light and three-light casements visible from the west side. The rear of the main range has a tall round-arched stair window, now partially blocked, within a raised 18th-century outshut. The east rear wing includes two-light casements facing into a courtyard and an external stack on the north gable. The west wing has an external brick stack facing the courtyard, with some light timber-framing visible to the first floor, and a three-light leaded casement to the north gable.

Inside, the central range was remodelled in the 18th century. The staircase, within a former outshut, has two stick balusters per tread and shaped tread-ends. The entrance hall includes pilastered walls and an elliptical arch leading to the stair hall, with flagstone floors and six-panelled doors in moulded architraves. A south west room on the first floor appears unfinished, with unplastered walls and no ceiling. A recessed, chamfered window surround from the 17th century is exposed in an internal wall of this room. The south east bedroom has an Adam-style fireplace surround. The 17th-century range retains a three-bay butt purlin roof and gable-end stacks. Marshwood House was reputedly occupied by the Wyndham family during the rebuilding of Phillips House, with additions and improvements made during the 1780s and 1790s by Edward Whatmore and Elizabeth Wyndham.