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Marwell Hall

Grade I listed

English Heritage Legacy ID: 145472

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Marvell Hall

Grade I listed

List Entry Number: 1350871

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SU 52 SW OWSLEBURY MARWELL ZOO PARK 8/38 5.12.55 Marwell Hall GV (formerly listed as Marwell I Hall, including wall with Summerhouse to N.E)

Medium sized country house. Episcopal manor house of C14 remodelled for Sir Henry Seymour 1551, remodelled for Sir William Long 1816. Stone and brick rendered with stone dressings, old plain tile roofs. Early example of Tudor revival A long building of 6 wide bays, 2 rooms deep on N-S axis. W entrance, front 2 storeys and attic, 6 bays, end bays are slightly projecting gabled wings, with full height diagonal buttresses at corners, topped by finials. Entrance to S of centre with projecting single storey porch with 4-centred arches, parapet clasping buttresses with finials, vaulted ceiling and glazed screen with entrance door in. To N, full height Great Hall with 2 15-light, 4-mullion, 2-transom windows with buttress between. To S, impinging on porch, slightly projecting bay with mezzanine floor and on each floor 8-light mullioned and transomed windows. Centre part has cusped cornice and battelemented parapet. Gabled end bays have on lower floors 12-light mullioned and transomed window and in gable 3-light mullioned windows, all with dripstones. All windows have leaded lights. To N single storey C19 Gothic billiards room. E, garden front 8 bay with projecting central 4 bays, 3 storeys, with 2 bays each end of 2 storeys and attic. Central part 1816 has turrets in each corner with false stair lights, rising above papapet to ogee finials. Ground floor windows are tall, having geometrical tracery in pointed head with pair of narrow pointed sashes below. 1st floor sill-level string, to cross windows, 2nd floor windows 2-light casements in 4-centred arch opening, above cornice and battlements Each end gabled bay with full-height corner buttress with finial. On lower floor 8-light mullioned and transomed windows, with above 3-light mullioned windows. Inner bay has cross windows. All windows have glazing bars and dripstones. N and S ends double gabled, 2 storeys and attic. Gable end stacks tall 3 shafted rendered octagonal moulded brick stacks. Complete 1817 interior except for early C18 staircase at N end of hall, Over this and hall 3 bays of late C14 roof of possible base cruck trusses, aisle plate, arched brace to arcade plate and common rafters. Arcade braces meet at bay midpoint. Common rafter roof above arcade plate with curved braces from arcade plate to collar. Some llm span with 5.5m bays. Hall fireplace has stone panel over it with Royal Arms. Early C17 fireplace in library, carved overmantel and fluted pilasters. VCH; 1908; Vol 3; p 332. 'Buildings of England'; N Pevsner; Penguin; 1966; p 331.

Listing NGR: SU5193823775

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Grounds, Gardens & Tree Trail

Please note there is currently work underway on our 13th Century Grade 1 listed building, Marwell Hall. With a responsibility to look after the historic building, it is important that we re-render the exterior during the driest months and we’re aiming to have the work completed by September. Although Marwell Hall is used for private events and is not accessible to public, we’d like to thank you for your understanding during this time.

Located behind Marwell Hall and next to the back lawn, our Formal Garden includes a representation of three garden styles of the 16th and 17th century.

Knot Garden

This type of garden was very popular in the Tudor period. Our knot garden uses small box hedging to frame the perimeter, with box and lavender crossing at strategic locations within this frame. Roses and pinks serve as fill in plants within the design .The term knot derives from the over and under of threads used in an English knot, or strapwork, needlework pattern. The hedge height rises at hedge junctions to indicate the crossing of threads.

Parterre Garden

By the 17th century, knot gardens were considered dated and other garden styles such as the parterre became fashionable. This French name means on the ground. Parterres might include a group of flower beds laid out in a formal pattern, often surrounded by hedging, and occasionally having a central feature. These gardens became fashionable in the 1600s and had a revival in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Colourful roses and lilies feature in our garden.

Kitchen Garden

This garden would have been used for cultivating herbs, fruit and vegetables for the Hall's kitchen. Our garden has been designed with a formal pattern and is separated from the rest of the ornamental gardens, as was often the case. Herbs were popular in the 16th century for a variety of uses. Many such as marjoram and lemon balm were used for culinary, medicinal and occasionally aromatic purposes. Vegetables such as carrots became popular in the 17th century and the plants we are growing here today may have been typical of gardens then.

Travel in time with a tree

Explore both our Formal Garden and grounds using our self-guided, tree trail, available to download below. Discover our ancient trees and their historical and ecological importance.

Marwell Tree Trail Leaflet Here:-
www.marwell.org.uk/media/other/marwell-tree-trail-leaflet...

www.marwell.org.uk/zoo/explore/gardens

Our Heritage

www.marwell.org.uk/media/other/marwell_zoo_-_950_to_1972.pdf

Taken on: August 17, 2017

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