Marlfield House

Marlfield House is a large house, built in 1914 by H.G. Courtney for his own use, and now used as offices. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with dressings of red brick, including a platband and rusticated quoins. The roof is hipped and covered in clay tiles, with deep coved eaves and tall brick stacks featuring arch-panelled sides and moulded stone cornices.

The building is planned with the principal rooms facing south onto a garden, and the centre of the south front gives way to a verandah colonnade and entrance. To the rear (north) is a central hall with an open-well staircase on the north-west side and a service wing to the north-east. The house is designed in the Queen Anne style.

The south garden front has a 2:3:2 bay arrangement, with advanced end bays featuring three-light bow windows on the ground floor. The central section is recessed and features a Portland stone Tuscan colonnade in antis, as well as three French windows. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows in exposed moulded cases. Four hipped dormers are present, with the central two being paired, and featuring casements with glazing bars. A single bay is set back on the right, with tripartite sashes and glazing bars. The east elevation includes various sash and casement windows with glazing bars and a round-arched cellar doorway to the left. The west elevation features a projecting stack with arched panels, and a bay to the left with an oculus on the ground floor. The north entrance front is asymmetrical with four bays. A two-storey projecting porch is on the right of the centre, with a hipped roof, a projecting centre section, and a doorway with a moulded doorcase, panelled reveals, a panelled door, and a large semi-circular canopy resting on brackets. Casement windows with glazing bars are present, along with a large stair window to the right and a projecting service wing on the left. Above the porch is an octagonal cupola with a lead dome and weathervane.

The interior features a vaulted entrance vestibule leading to a central hall with an open-well staircase, which has a heavy balustrade with turned balusters and a ramped handrail to square newels. A panelled drawing room has a moulded cornice and a chimneypiece with an eared architrave. Other rooms also have various chimneypieces, and a back staircase is located in the service wing. Marlfield House is a good example of a substantial early 20th-century house built in the Queen Anne style.