Marshwood House

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 (V.C.H., Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; Wiltshire Buildings Records unpublished material)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