Little Marchmont Marchmont House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. Country house. 13 related planning applications.
Little Marchmont Marchmont House
- WRENN ID
- distant-chapel-thyme
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1948
- Type
- Country house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PICCOTT'S END 1. 5252 (West Side) No 57, (Marchmont House) and Little Marchmont, (Formerly listed as TL 0508 3/1 18.6.48 Marchmont House) TL 0508 3/lA
II* GV 2. Late C18 small country house. Stucco, Neoclassical style, L plan. Low pitched Welsh slated roof with cornice, pediments to road and garden fronts with semi-circular windows in tympana. 2 storeys and attics, entrance front. 2 storey semi-circular bow on right, 3:3 sash windows with glazing bars in reveals. Ground floor pair of 3 light windows under segmental panels flanking recessed porch with Greek Doric columns beneath frieze cornice and segmental panel. 2 fold 6-panelled door with metal grilles to marginal lights. 2 storey 5 window separate dwelling at right angles was former back wing. Garden front trellis verandah, now glazed. Interior contains good original details: friezes and cornices, staircase, north ground floor room elliptical niche, fluted Roman Ionic pilasters, 2 medallion plaques. Home of the third Earl of Marchmont (1708-94), statesman, friend of Pope and Bolingbroke.
No 57 (Marchmont House), Little Marchmont, Outbuilding (former stables) and Gate Piers form a group.
Listing NGR: TL0477609116
Detailed Attributes
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