• The Country House Reve... First broadcast: 14 Jun 2011. Episode 6/6 Dan Cruickshank visits Marshcourt, considered by many to be Lutyens' masterpiece.
I used to go to school here in the early 80's. I have some wonderful memories from my time there, my mum taught at the pre-prep, my father taught in the main school. We lived in the North Lodge at the top of the drive.
I like to look at the detail that went into the older homes but it doesn't always mean I would love there .. it's just interesting to look at the different ideas and things that have been someone's ideal home
My whole life I’ve seen this house from my bedroom window, and never has a building held such mystery for me. I could navigate marsh court and the old railway line with my eye closed, but not this house, who sits a modest few hundred yards from possibly the most visited place in Stockbridge. From word of Johnny Depp buying the house to being employed by a neighbouring estate(How Park) I don’t know I’ll ever fully explore this, and I don’t know I’ll ever want the mystery to end.
I saw this house the other day it really looks like a palace from 1/4 mile away,then when I went home I looked on the map and discovered it was marsh court I was amazed. There is something palace like about the place, even from a distance. Looks lovely on a Sunny Spring day, I would love to go and have a look around one day, even if I just see the Garden it would be a nice experience 😊
And there are plenty of people who are fully aware that the people who lived in this opulence did on the backs of the poor. They taxed the living shit out of them so they could whack off in the lap of luxury while the people starved and were cold. They need to turn these buildings into libraries and schools where people can go to improve their financial situation.
Many being owned by the National Trust and English Heritage, they are wonderful inheritances for all of us, so socialists shouldn’t complain. There are very few in private hands and in that case good that someone apart from taxpayers are also keeping them up. Look at what happens when nobody bothers to look after them in Scotland, more abandoned and ruined castles and stately homes than elsewhere in the UK, so the SNP should go prove their worthiness and get good at doing rather than moaning and blaming!
Back in the 90's Marsh Court was owned by Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson. He turned it back into a private house and reportedly made 4m quid. There's one socialist not complaining!
@@harenrussel Most patronising. Support of the workers was grudging at best. Greed makes the world go around but there is no need to worship or venerate it. Life could be more equitable but no, the greed ethic always prevails.
@@thwb4661 The original comment is obviously about recognition, not pity 🤦♂️ I would write more about the other stupid statements made in your comment, but your obfuscation is obviously due to a deep seated desire to sideskirt the issue, rather than a deficiency in understanding simple English sentences.
Meaningless trivia: Edwin Lutyens' client for Marshcourt was Herbert Johnson. Frank Lloyd Wright (born 1867) was Lutyens' (born 1869) almost exact contemporary, and very much his equal in terms of talent and quantity of output, also had an unusually important client named Herbert Johnson.
Vertical Horizon If it makes you feel any better many of these manor/country houses are crumbling because of such excess, their ancestors just can't afford to keep them up anymore.
couldnt stand watching the presenter's waving hands, body language and voice.....he is talking about a house after all....if you follow all of the infuriating habit of his, one might think he discovered 'the meaning of life'.....as if .....God knows who the owner of the house exploited in order to be able to build 'the house'......
