Uffington House

Uffington House is a country house dating to 1885, designed by EA Ould. It was constructed in the Germanic style associated with the architect John Douglas, with whom Ould had previously trained. The house is built of stone and terracotta-dressed hard red brick, with a red clay tile roof.

The house has cellars, three main floors, and a roof attic. The front, overlooking the river, features a two-window bay flanked by stone-banded octagonal corner turrets. The ground floor has two replaced windows with small panes in segmental arches. The left turret has tall windows on each exposed face, with removed glazing bars, while the right turret has a cross-window in its central face and a single-light transomed window on each oblique face. Segmental-arched windows on the first floor of the central bay open onto a cast-iron balcony. The second floor has a small tourelle corbelled from the side of the right turret. The central bay has a steep hipped roof with a pair of symmetrically placed, shaped chimneys. The turrets and tourelle have spire roofs, and there are belled eaves to all roofs with lead finials. A part-glazed six-panel oak door is set within a lean-to front gable porch with terracotta pilasters.

When inspected in June 1992, the house was vacant and suffering from some damage. The interior was not inspected, but it retains some features characteristic of John Douglas’s design.