Description

ST52SE WEST CAMEL CP
LITTLE MARSTON

4/132 Little Marston Farm House

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- II

Farmhouse. Late C18 with earlier fragments. Local stone cut and squared,
random coursed; Welsh slate roofs between coped gables with finials:
central brick chimney stack to front roof. Complex plan; under 5 roofs,
4 of which run parallel: East elevation 2-storeys of 3-bays. Central
6-panelled front door with fanlight over set in wood lattice front
porch; 16-pane sash windows, the upper panes smaller than the lower, in
plain reveals with voussoired flat arches over. North elevation has 4
gables, with C20 doors and windows. Well documentated history; the
Domesday manor of Marston Parva, it belonged to John when he became king
in 1199; held by Stourton family from 1402 to 1641, it then had a
private chapel and its own well; transferred to Seymour family in 1766,
who held it well into C20, by which time it is described as Little
Marston Farm.

Listing NGR: ST5792022612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26308531

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)