West Ord

This is a house, likely built between 1700 and 1710. It is constructed of painted ashlar with a Scottish slate roof. The house is a symmetrical rectangular design with identical pairs of opposing facades. It has two storeys plus attics, with a five-bay by two-bay layout. Features include a chamfered plinth and broad angle pilasters. The central entrance has a panelled door with an overlight, set within a raised stone surround. Tall, narrow windows, now fitted with 20th-century plate-glass casements, are similarly set within raised stone surrounds. A bold cornice runs continuously around the building, topped by a tall, plain parapet. The roof is very tall and steeply pitched, forming a near-pyramidal shape, with two large square ridge stacks. Three original hipped dormers are present, each with a two-light casement.

Inside, the drawing room features panelling within eared architraves. It contains a 20th-century fireplace flanked by original full-height Ionic pilasters, a wood modillion cornice, two eight-panel doors, and a round-headed 12-panel door within a keyed architrave. The staircase has a panelled dado, a boldly-moulded wreathed handrail with turned balusters, and moulded tread ends. Two keyed, panelled arches are on the ground floor, and three are on the first floor.

A large panelled room on the first floor has been subdivided into two bedrooms. This room features two round-headed 10-panel doors in panelled reveals with fluted pilasters and keyed archivolts. The fireplace has a bolection-moulded surround and full-height Corinthian pilasters. A particularly fine cornice features enriched modillions, egg-and-dart, and finely-detailed oak leaves and other foliage interspersed between the modillions. A round-headed niche has an enriched moulded surround and shaped shelves. Another room on the first floor has fielded panels and a wooden cornice.

The attic contains four two-panel doors, alongside original large oak principals dying into the wall face, with one row of trenched purlins.

The house originally belonged to the Orde Family. Its quality may be attributed to the fact that Margaret Orde was the mistress of Sir William Blackett of Wallington, and that her illegitimate daughter, also named Margaret, became Sir William's heir. The house was likely built before Margaret Orde senior’s death in 1712. The interior decoration might date from after the house’s full transfer to the Wallington estate in 1726.