Marden Hill

Marden Hill is a Grade II* listed country house close to the village of Tewin, Hertfordshire.

[1] The house, originally Jacobean but substantially rebuilt in the 18th-century and modified in the 19th, is built in two storeys with attics of yellow brick with Portland stone dressings.

In 1653 his grandson demolished the Elizabethan building and built a new house on the site, Marden Hill, high above the Mimram.

After several owners, Robert Mackay demolished all but the present north wing in 1789 and it was redesigned in 1790-94 by Francis Carter retaining Jacobean fragments of the house.

Soane's work for the Bank of England is largely destroyed but elements of that building were used in his designs for Marden Hill and still exist, particularly the Aztec-style cornices and the Ionic columns.