Marshfield And Audley And Wall And Gatepiers

Marshfield and Audley, along with the wall and gatepiers, is a former house now serving as a nursery and two houses, built around 1780. The building features rock-faced stone and a slate roof, standing two storeys tall with seven bays, where the end bays are slightly recessed. The arrangement is 1:5:1, with each division marked by projecting quoins. The central entrance is flanked by engaged Ionic columns that support an open pediment, featuring a round-headed fanlight above a door from around 1970.

The projecting centre has four ground floor windows and five upper floor windows, all with moulded architraves and sashes. Two of these windows in each floor of the end bay form a 2-light window, with each light containing sashes. The left-hand light on each storey is blind. The eaves are modillioned and break forward over the five central bays. The hipped roof has three equally spaced stacks.

On the right-hand side, there is a mid-19th century canted extension with an additional porch that serves as the entrance to Audley. At the rear, there is a two-storey, three-bay projection dated 1857, featuring the initials EHD (Elizabeth Dawson).

Inside Marshfield, there is a fine octagonal hall that leads to a late 18th-century dog-leg staircase with an open string, turned balusters, and a wreathed handrail. A large staircase window at the rear, now partially blocked to create a door to the 1857 extension, has cruck pieces in the jambs, a round head, and a pulvinated frieze with louvred leaf decoration. Consoles support a broken pediment, and several Adam style fireplaces remain in place.

The entrance to Marshfield is marked by square gatepiers with a base, capital, and pyramidal top, accompanied by a low garden wall and railings from around 1980. This building is reputedly constructed for Thomas Salisbury of Newton in Bowland.