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| Marble Hill House |
| Marble Hill House is London's best example of the Palladian villa. It was built in 1729 for Henrietta Howard, the mistress of George II, who hosted literary salons in the house's Great Room. Marble Hill is set in 66 acres of glorious parkland that reaches down to the Thames. |
| Grade I listed, Marble Hill's interior houses a fine collection of Georgian paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, plus a portrait (by Francis Bindon) of the satirist and essayist Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travel and member of the Marble Hill literarati. |
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Twickenham and St Margaret's. |
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33, 490, H22, R68 and R70 go along Richmond Road. |
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The house is open to the public from 1st April to 1st November. It is run by English Heritage. |
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