[1] Marston Bigot was listed as "Mersitone-tora" in the Domesday Book of 1086, which gave the name of the then Saxon landowner as Robert Arundel.

[7] The earliest description of Marston House is contained in a letter from Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, in 1641, when he purchased the Manor from Sir John Hippisley.

In the three-storey central block of this front are four Ionic columns, which were built by Sir Jeffry Wyattville around 1817, with two-storey wings on either side, which were added in 1776 by Samuel Wyatt.

[4] They include a rustic, rectangular-shaped, above-ground limestone grotto dating from 1743, north-east of the house near the Frome road, which was built by James Scott.

[10] Much of the 18th century layout is now hidden by a lake which was created in the 1820s and 1830s,[11] as part of a restyling in the style of Capability Brown,[12] with advice from William Sawrey Gilpin.

The small stone church, dedicated to St Leonard, was built on the site of an older one and was opened to the public in 1789.

The nave has three bays with semi-circular headed windows with heavily enriched surrounds and an elaborate hammerbeam roof.