Marble Hill House

Marble Hill House
Marble Hill House
	North (town) front, with pilasters
Type	Villa
Location	Twickenham
Coordinates	51°26′58″N 0°18′48″W / 51.44944°N 0.31333°W
OS grid reference	TQ 17296 73627
Area	Richmond upon Thames
Built	1724–1729
Architect	Roger Morris
Architectural style(s)	Neo-Palladian
Owner	English Heritage
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	Marble Hill House
Designated	2 September 1952
Reference no.	1285673
	Location of Marble Hill House in London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Marble Hill House is a Neo-Palladian villa, now Grade I listed, in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was built between 1724 and 1729 as the home of Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, who lived there until her death. The compact design soon became famous and furnished a standard model for the Georgian English villa and for plantation houses in the American colonies.

The estate and house came under ownership of the London County Council and was open to the public in 1903. It was the first eighteenth-century house in England to be preserved by a public body. Restoration by the Greater London Council (GLC) began in 1965 and after the dissolution of the GLC the freehold of the house and estate passed to English Heritage.^[1]^[2]

^ Bryant, Julius (2002). Marble Hill, Twickenham. Internet Archive. London : English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-85074-730-7.
^ Arcadia in the city at Marble Hill. London : English Heritage. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85074-842-7.

[1] Bryant, Julius (2002). Marble Hill, Twickenham. Internet Archive. London : English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-85074-730-7.

[2] Arcadia in the city at Marble Hill. London : English Heritage. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85074-842-7.

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