Marble Hill House

When tea was first in vogue it was so popular that servants often helped themselves to this expensive luxury. The solution? Tea allowances for all servants. That was just one fascinating fact from our old fashioned afternoon tea for seniors. Thanks to all to came along for tea in vintage china, cakes and a talk on the history of tea.

Lovely to see an advance team from the women's organisation involved at Marble Hill, Inspired Women, coming along for a scout-around. They're deep in the planning process for A Celebration Of Women, a festive event of food, talks, tours and more which is set to be held at Marble HIll on Saturday 1 December from 6.30pm - 10.30pm. For tickets please call 07713 405049.

⚠️ Please be advised that on Thursday 18 Oct there will be filming activity taking place in Marble Hill house. There will be no filming outside and the café will be unaffected. Please refer to our website for further information: https://bit.ly/2P2jGEX ⚠️

Stunning Autumn skies at Marble Hill this morning. Do you have any pictures of the park looking glorious?

Come along to join FREE tours of this Georgian Palladian villa on the Thames. To book a tour please call 0370 333 1183

Learn the history and secrets behind our gorgeous Georgian Thameside Palladian villa - visit Marble Hill, which is putting on two days of FREE tours London Open House weekend (September 22 and 23). Too book call 0370 333 1183.

Students from Birkbeck and UCL universitiy field schools are visiting us this week as part of their study. They're using different techniques to examine what's beneath the surface of the Italian Garden. Come along to our Open Day this Saturday to hear what they have been up to. Details here: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/…/w hats-on/marble-hill…/

You spoke, we listened. Learn about our revised plans for Marble Hill House: https://bit.ly/2M3FfQ8

The Great Room is a hive of activity today as paint analysis, conservation and research experts Crick-Smith help us understand how the room has been decorated during its history. Their scaffolding gives a very different view of the room...

Keep your eyes peeled 👀 for a familiar location in ITV’s Vanity Fair this evening at 9pm

After a long and (at times) hot Summer, we're getting ready for the new sports season. Our ground staff are hard at working marking out the new pitches! To book a pitch for the 2018/19 season pop in to see our ranger team, or give them a call on 07825 680709.

Free tours of the house and garden, family tours and make-and-do, yoga on the lawn and information about the Marble Hill Revived plans - there's so much going on at the Marble Hill Open Day on September 15. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2MERQ1i

Fantastic to see so many young yogis at our Summer holiday kids yoga sessions! Many thanks to Lotus and Laurel yoga who run inspirational sessions for donations only. Don't forget we have family friendly yoga on Saturdays from 8am - 9am , and our Open Day on Saturday 15 September from 11am onwards. Details here: https://bit.ly/2wi2rCt

Best dressed dogs, waggy tails and Best In Show - good fun was had by all at the Marble Hill Dog Show and Doggie Drop in last Saturday. A huge thank you to organisers Reality Dog Training who gave up their time to come along and make the show a success.

Nine pin bowling, shell collages and relay races to the river - all part of our fun-packed education tour with St Richard's Church of England school from Ham, who took the ferry across the Thames to visit us at Marble last week. To book a FREE education tour at Marble Hill, click this link: https://bit.ly/2L4Ak5z

It was lovely to hear the patter of young feet at Marble Hill House in a special set of children’s tours on Saturday. After touring the house with local artist Michael Coldman, they went back to Marble Hill Play Centre to make their own art telling some of the stories of Marble Hill. Check our website for details of other FREE events available: https://bit.ly/2wi2rCt

Twickenham insects will be living in the height of luxury thanks to 20 young eco warriors who helped Marble Hill Rangers create a bug hotel on Sunday. And every youngster created their own little hotel to take home and hang in the garden! For more information about FREE events coming up at Marble Hill Park, click here: https://bit.ly/2wi2rCt

Looking for something free and fabulous for the kids at the weekend? Try Mighty Marble Hill, a set of children's tours of the house with a local artist - followed by messy make-and-do at the Marble Hill Play Centre. Just turn up at Marble Hill's front door! Limited places available, for children with an accompanying adult, on tours at 10.30am, 11,00am, 11.30am and 12 midday.

Lovely to have the Lovekyn Consort and Maja, London Jazz Singer, for two lyrical Sunday afternoons at Marble on July1st and 8th. Join us for more Music in the Park this July: https://bit.ly/2KwkFry

Only experienced the grounds so far but lovely space to run around with the kids, lots of local wildlife around to watch and lots of things happening to take part in, I look forward to actually going into the house one day too

Lovely place . Excellent guided tour very informative guide . Well worth a visit. Big enough to enjoy small enough to follow information.

Love this place! Come here at least once a week. One of the best parks in London.

Beautiful house, 66 acres of great park area, loved my visit and strongly recommend it to all my friends

A local treasure; the dog loves the park, my son loves the cafe and I love the house!

We decided to visit Marble Hill House for a Saturday afternoon outing as it was just a short train ride for us. The House is 10 minutes walk from St. Margaret's station and is set within a 66 acre park which, when we visited, was quite busy with locals walking their dogs. Marble Hill House was built between 1724 and 1729 as a home and artistic salon to Henrietta Howard, who became the mistress of the Prince of Wales, later George II.

Access was by guided tour on weekends only, although there are plans to extend this in the future. Our guide, a pleasant Dutch woman called Saskia, gave a lengthy and interesting talk about the history of the house and showed us around the three floors and dozen or so rooms. The tour lasted about 75 minutes, but became a little rushed at the end in order to accommodate the next group.

The house is currently run by English Heritage, who are slowly restoring it to its former glory with the addition of period paintings furniture and furnishings. Unfortunately, because many of the items are on loan from other establishments, no interior photography is allowed.

We had about 12 people in our tour, which was maybe a little too many, as the delays moving between the rooms probably accounted for the rushed ending. I do not think that it is a suitable tour for children (there were two on our tour) as they would quickly become bored and irritable. It would also be respectful if you listen to the guide rather than conduct your own competing conversation, as some of our tour chose to do - very annoying!

In the grounds of the house there is a simple, but pleasant cafe with indoor and outdoor seating, and their rhubarb tart was quite delicious.