In the novella Dead Man's Mirror, Hamborough Close is the family seat of the Chevenix-Gore family. It is located in Hamborough St Mary, Westshire. There is very little description of the building in the text except that it has a "wide gateway flanked with huge stone griffons". Captain John Lake is the land agent managing the estate.
Gervase Chevenix-Gore invited Hercule Poirot there.
Besides the main house, the estate also has a dower house. Vanda Chevenix-Gore stood to inherit either the dower house or the property at 218 Lowndes Square as she chose.
Portrayals[]
In the ITV's 1993 adaptation of the story, Marylands, in Ewhurst, Surrey, was used as the filming location. In this adaptation John Lake is an architect and Poirot implies that he was the one who designed Hamborough Close. Late in the episode when Poirot sees a scale model of "Northgate Development", one of Lake's projects, he notes that the Spanish style design and that of Hamborough Close are the work of the same hand.