Marlborough House

Marlborough House is a house, now an office, dating from around 1740, with a later 18th-century rear wing. It is constructed of brick with plaster dressings, and has hipped tile roofs with brick stacks. The house is arranged around a central staircase. It is an Early Georgian style building, two storeys high with an attic, and has a symmetrical five-window front. A brick plinth and top cornice are present. The entrance has a porch with paired Tuscan columns, a frieze, cornice and blocking course, above a six-panel door and an overlight. Segmental-headed casement openings have grilles, while the segmental-headed windows have sills and plaster arches with keys over 12-pane sashes. The central first-floor window has an apron and an eared and shouldered architrave with a key. Five hipped dormers have lead sides and 6-pane sashes. A sympathetic addition in a similar style was added in the late 20th century to the left. The right return has a hipped dormer. The later 18th-century wing has a canted end and cornice, a lateral stack to the front, and segmental-headed windows with 12-pane sashes, including one 4:12:4-pane sash to the ground floor. A gabled wing to the right has a coped gable with kneelers, and a 20th-century single-storey infill block is also present. Inside, the open-well staircase has a cut string, column-on-vase balusters, turned newels, a ramped handrail, and fielded-panelled dado.