MARCHWOOD HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1094335
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: MARCHWOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MARCHWOOD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1094335
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: MARCHWOOD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MARCHWOOD HOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MARCHWOOD HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hampshire
District:: New Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Marchwood
National Park:: NEW FOREST
National Grid Reference:: SU 39112 09220

Details

MARCHWOOD MARCHWOOD PARK SU 30 NE 8/7 Marchwood House (Formerly Marchwood Park House) GV II*

Country mansion. 1820 by H F K Holloway and later. Stucco, 1st floor band, moulded eaves cornice below blocking course, architraves to windows with cornice on brackets to the ground-floor. Low-pitched hipped slate roof. A Regency building of classical form and restrained detail of Greek mouldings; almost square main block with long service wing to one side, and ballroom (a later addition) to the other. The south-west front elevation has a slightly projecting centrepiece, of two storeys, 1.1.1 windows. Sashes in reveals, coupled in the centre. Greek Doric porch with coupled fluted columns, single pilasters, laurel wreathes in the frieze, architrave enclosing plain fanlight and half-glazed coupled doors all on a stone flagged base of two steps. To the east side is set back the blank wall of the ballroom, the main block showing a triple ground-floor window south of a bow-shaped bay of three windows (2 blank) now masked by the ballroom. The long west service wing is lower, of three storeys on a lower ground level, and ends in a taller unit; all of plain but similar treatment. The north-east shows as a continuous range spearated by only slight projections, of 1, 2, 3 storeys, 3:2.1.2: 5.0.1.0 windows. Plain walls with plinth, cornice to low parapet, sashes in reveals; the western block has a triple sash to the 1st floor (beneath a pediment) above a cambered (lower) ground-floor triple sash. Inside, there is a palatial staircase hall, with ornamental iron rails to the stone stairway, in several rooms there are original fireplaces, decorative ceilings, dado panelling, and mahogany doors in architraves.

Listing NGR: SU3909309947

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Legacy System number:: 143452
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.