Marchwood House

MARCHWOOD MARCHWOOD PARK SU 30 NE 8/7 Marchwood House (Formerly Marchwood Park House) GV II*

Country mansion. 1820 by H F K Holloway and later. Stucco, 1st floor band, moulded eaves cornice below blocking course, architraves to windows with cornice on brackets to the ground-floor. Low-pitched hipped slate roof. A Regency building of classical form and restrained detail of Greek mouldings; almost square main block with long service wing to one side, and ballroom (a later addition) to the other. The south-west front elevation has a slightly projecting centrepiece, of two storeys, 1.1.1 windows. Sashes in reveals, coupled in the centre. Greek Doric porch with coupled fluted columns, single pilasters, laurel wreathes in the frieze, architrave enclosing plain fanlight and half-glazed coupled doors all on a stone flagged base of two steps. To the east side is set back the blank wall of the ballroom, the main block showing a triple ground-floor window south of a bow-shaped bay of three windows (2 blank) now masked by the ballroom. The long west service wing is lower, of three storeys on a lower ground level, and ends in a taller unit; all of plain but similar treatment. The north-east shows as a continuous range spearated by only slight projections, of 1, 2, 3 storeys, 3:2.1.2: 5.0.1.0 windows. Plain walls with plinth, cornice to low parapet, sashes in reveals; the western block has a triple sash to the 1st floor (beneath a pediment) above a cambered (lower) ground-floor triple sash. Inside, there is a palatial staircase hall, with ornamental iron rails to the stone stairway, in several rooms there are original fireplaces, decorative ceilings, dado panelling, and mahogany doors in architraves.

Listing NGR: SU3909309947