Marble Hill House
MARBLE HILL HOUSE, MARBLE HILL PARK
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1285673
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Marble Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- MARBLE HILL HOUSE, MARBLE HILL PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1285673
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Marble Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARBLE HILL HOUSE, MARBLE HILL PARK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MARBLE HILL HOUSE, MARBLE HILL PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17296 73627
Details
1. 5028 MARBLE HILL PARK
Marble Hill House TQ 1773 21/16 2.9.52 I
2. Built 1724-29 to the designs of Lord Herbert and Roger Morris for Henrietta Howard, mistress of George II. An unusually instructive exemplar of the architectural ideas of the English Palladian School. The setting of the house was the work of the poet Alexander Pope and Charles Bridgeman, the royal landscape gardener. Rectangular on plan, with the main elevations facing north and south; stucco faced with stone dressings; 3 main storeys (the lowest treated as an architectural basement); modillion cornice with lead-covered blocking course pyramidal roof covered with blue- black pantiles and with a lead-covered ball finial at the apex. The north and south fronts of 5-bays with the centre 3 bays projecting and pedimented; projecting plain string course and sill band at principal floor level. On the north front, the projecting centre is enriched with a rusticated basement and a pilastered giant Ionic order with stepped architrave and pulvinated frieze; tetra- style; a cartouche in the tympanum of the pediment; the south front is more plainly treated with a rusticated arched door at the centre. Low wing walls on either side of the north front. Fine interiors including the Great Room (a cube of 24 ft) and a mahogany staircase. The building had been altered externally and internally but was restored to its original design by the GLC in 1965-66. (See: M P G Draper and W A Eden: Marble Hill House and its Owners.)
Listing NGR: TQ1729673627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 205555
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Draper, M P G, Eden, W A, Marble Hill House and its Owners, ()
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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