Marsh Court, Hampshire, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Formal gardens laid out by Gertrude Jekyll and Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1901-04, surrounding a house by Sir Edwin Lutyens of the same date.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Marsh Court and its surrounding landscape of around 12 hectares is located 1.5 kilometres south of Stockbridge, 2.5 kilometres north of King's Somborne, and 13 kilometres west-north-west of Winchester. The landscape is bounded by a lane running between Stockbridge and King's Somborne, with the River Test beyond, to the west, and woodland and farmland to the north, east, and south. Marsh Court and its gardens occupy a spur of a hill, with the ground falling beyond the gardens to the west down to the Test, and rising to the east. There are good views from the garden to the west and south over the Test valley.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 33 (19 April 1913), pp 562-71; 71 (19 March 1932), pp 316-22; (26 March 1932), pp 354-9

L Weaver, Houses and Gardens by E L Lutyens (1913), pp 75-93

N Pevsner and D Lloyd, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1967), pp 312-13

J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1982), pp 72-8

K Bilikowski, Historic Parks and Gardens (1983)

D Ottewill, The Edwardian Garden (1989), pp 80-2

Maps

OS 25" to 1 mile: 3rd edition published 1910 

Description written: July 2000

Edited: February 2004