The compact design soon became famous and furnished a standard model for the Georgian English villa and for plantation houses in the American colonies.

Pembroke, then Lord Herbert, based the design of Marble Hill to a large degree on Andrea Palladio's 1553 Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese, Italy, and thus incorporated a cubic saloon on the first floor or piano nobile.

[4] Villa Cornaro also served as a model for plantation houses in the American colonies, examples being Drayton Hall (1738–1742) in Charleston, South Carolina, and Thomas Jefferson's initial version of Monticello (1768–1770).

In the late 18th century the house was rented by the Prince Regent (the future George IV) for his mistress, Maria Fitzherbert, so the two could continue to meet in private.

As part of this project Historic England made a range of landscape investigations, including geophysical surveys, aerial photography and lidar mapping, analytical earthwork survey, coring and vegetation analysis to create a clear picture of the development of the Marble Hill landscape from the 17th century onwards.

The chief execuitve officer of English Heritage, Kate Mavor, described the restored house as “one of the forgotten gems of Georgian London”.