Orford House
ORFORD HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221630
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Orford House
- Statutory Address:
- ORFORD HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2004-09-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/12953/30
- Rights:
- © Mr A Taylor. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221630
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Orford House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORFORD HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ORFORD HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ugley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51476 27081
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/10/2012
TL 52 NW 22/762
21.2.67
5222
UGLEY
CAMBRIDGE ROAD
Orford House
II*
Early C18 red brick house built by the First Earl of Orford circa 1700.
considerably altered and added to at the rear. The front is of 2 storeys with
a parapet. Three: three: three window range of double-hung sashes with
glazing bars and segmental rubbed brick arches with fluted keystones. The
centre part, of 3 window range breaks forward as a half hexagonal bay. The
doorway has a Doric doorcase with a modillion pediment and a triglyph frieze.
The roof is partly of slate and partly tiled.
Interior: Mid-C18 dog-leg staircase with open string with carved brackets to
tread ends. 2 turned balusters per tread. Moulded, ramped, and wreathed
handrail. Panelling above and below dado rail. Dado rail imitates rake of
handrail. Quiet Room on ground floor has 2 mid C18 doorcases, one with
heavily moulded and bolectioned cornice head, the other with cornice with
egg-and-dart moulding with bay leaf frieze below, supported on scrolled
brackets. Both have fielded 6-panel doors. Moulded and scrolled window
surrounds with shutters to 3 windows. Mid C18 chimneypiece with moulded
decoration, including frieze with central carved face with swags. Heavily
moulded and decorated overmantel, with dentilled broken pediment containing
basket of fruit, with foliage frieze below. Heavily moulded and modillioned
ceiling cornice. Rococo plasterwork ceiling with central sunface, c1760s.
This room is said to have been partly designed by W Kent. Ground floor large
room to south has c1770s marble chimneypiece, with inlaid marble fluting and
carved centre panel to frieze. 1st floor large bedroom has late C18 marble
chimneypiece with fluting and centre panel to frieze carved with classical
figures. Moulded ceiling cornice with anthemion frieze. 1st floor bedroom to
west has late C18 chimneypiece with marble fireplace with moulded edge and
anthemion decoration to frieze above. 1st floor corridor to east has c1730s
chimneypiece, with marble with moulded edge, and egg-and-dart moulded
surround. There is a similar, larger chimneypiece with a cornice mantelshelf,
in the large room on the mezzanine floor.
Listing NGR: TL5147627081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 17-Jun-2026 at 08:46:46.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.