Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Orford House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7101724

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]