Marchwood House

Marchwood House, formerly known as Marchwood Park House, is a country mansion built in 1820 by H F K Holloway. The building is constructed of stucco and features a first-floor band, a moulded eaves cornice below a blocking course, and architraves to the windows with cornices on brackets at the ground floor. It has a low-pitched hipped slate roof and represents a Regency style with classical forms and restrained Greek mouldings. The main block is almost square, with a long service wing on one side and a ballroom, which is a later addition, on the other.

The south-west front elevation has a slightly projecting central section that is two storeys high and features a 1.1.1 window arrangement. The windows are sashes set in reveals and are coupled in the center. There is a Greek Doric porch with coupled fluted columns, single pilasters, and laurel wreathes in the frieze. The porch has an architrave enclosing a plain fanlight and half-glazed coupled doors, all situated on a stone flagged base with two steps.

To the east side, there is a blank wall of the ballroom, while the main block shows a triple ground-floor window south of a bow-shaped bay with three windows, two of which are blank and now masked by the ballroom. The long west service wing is lower, consisting of three storeys on a lower ground level, and ends in a taller unit, all with a plain but similar treatment.

The north-east side presents a continuous range with slight projections, featuring 1, 2, and 3 storeys with a window arrangement of 3:2.1.2: 5.0.1.0. The walls are plain with a plinth and a cornice leading to a low parapet, with sashes in reveals. The western block has a triple sash on the first floor beneath a pediment, above a cambered triple sash at the lower ground floor.

Inside, the mansion boasts a palatial staircase hall with ornamental iron rails on the stone stairway. Several rooms feature original fireplaces, decorative ceilings, dado panelling, and mahogany doors set in architraves.