Marlow Place is a country house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. It is a Grade I

listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

History

The house, which was designed by

Thomas Archer Thomas Archer (1668–1743) was an English Baroque architect, whose work is somewhat overshadowed by that of his contemporaries Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor. His buildings are important as the only ones by an English Baroque archit ...

in the English Baroque style, was built for John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington and completed in 1721. It was briefly used as a residence of the

Prince of Wales Prince of Wales ( cy, Tywysog Cymru, ; la, Princeps Cambriae/Walliae) is a title traditionally given to the heir apparent to the English and later British throne. Prior to the conquest by Edward I in the 13th century, it was used by the rulers ...

in the 1720s. After coming into the ownership of William Clayton of

Harleyford Manor Harleyford Manor is a country house near Marlow in Buckinghamshire. The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England, and its gardens are also listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The urn to th ...

it was sold to Thomas Williams of Temple around 1790. It served as an overflow for the junior department of the Royal Military College, shortly after the college was established in 1802, and also served as a boarding school in the 1860s but remained in the ownership of the Williams family until well into the 20th century. It went on to serve as a finishing school for girls in the 1950s and is now used as offices.

References

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