Arthur A. J. Marshman

He was educated at Northampton Grammar School. He married twice and had four children. Marshman was founder of Marshman Warren Taylor architects. He died in Northampton. Before beginning his professional life he completed his National Service in the Royal Air Force.

• Name — Arthur Marshman • Born — 19 February 1929 • Birthplace — Northampton, England • Died — 15 July 1997 • Place of death — Northampton, England • Occupation — Architect • Known for — Horton Rounds

• Illustration — Horton Rounds – the house on a circle He is probably best known for the design of Horton Rounds, an unusual curved house on stilts incorporating the shapes of a comma and a full stop in the village of Horton, Northamptonshire. The house was built as a family home, and the family lived there until 1982. The house has an unusual cantilevered balcony and cedar roof shingles. After being sold by the family, the house was for some years under the ownership of Roy Clarke the writer of Last of the Summer Wine. Of the house, Pevsner says: "A striking house. The dominant features are the broad curving eaves of the shingled roofs and the taller circular service cores and chimney of local yellow stone. In plan the house is a comma, with a full stop linked by a bridge. The tail of the comma, open on the ground floor with bedrooms above, shelters a paved garden. The broad end has service rooms and entrances below and a circular living area above which has views in all directions". In August 2012 English Heritage designated the house as Grade II listed. In the designation it was stated that "Along with Peter Lambert Gibbs's own house of 1965, Fernhill in Ashdown Forest, and Robert Harvey's houses in Warwickshire, Horton Rounds is one of the best in the country of a small group of post-war houses clearly influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright."

• Illustration — 60 billing Road, Northampton • Illustration — "Cheese house", Horton, Northamptonshire • Illustration — St Peter's vestry – Weston Favell

The Marshman family originated in Wiltshire and moved to Northamptonshire in the 18th century. Other members of the Marshman family include: • Hannah Marshman • John Clark Marshman • Joshua Marshman

Marshman is recorded as having received Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The identifiers under which Arthur A. Marshman may be traced in institutional catalogues.

• English Heritage Listing