Ufford Hall

Ufford Hall is a mansion built in 1734 by George Manners, a son of the Dukes of Rutland. The architect is unknown, though a rainwater head dated 1751 is present. Tradition suggests it stands on the site of an earlier building, Uphall, which was associated with the manor of Ufford in the 15th and 16th centuries. The building is now divided into flats.

The west garden front is ashlar with rusticated quoins and consists of a 2:1:3:1:2 bay arrangement. The central five bays rise to three storeys, with a pedimented centre and rustication to the ground and first floors. A cornice is surmounted by a balustrade. Flanking are two-storey, two-bay wings. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars set within moulded stone architraves, some with keyblocks. A central doorway features a flat, voussoired arch and ornately traceried rectangular fanlight above a glazed door.

The east front, facing the road, has rusticated quoins and a dentil cornice. It is three storeys high with a basement, and the three bays of the ground and first floors project at splayed angles. A two-storey and attic stair tower is centrally positioned, featuring a pedimented porch with Tuscan columns and a semi-circular fanlight, and a round-arched first floor window with a lunette above. Flanking are two-storey and basement two-bay wings. The building has slate hipped roofs and ashlar stacks, panelled and with cornices.

The principal rooms remain intact within the flats. The drawing room and dining room in the wings retain good 18th-century marble chimney pieces. The hall features a plaster ceiling with a running vine decoration and frieze, and a cantilevered geometric staircase with 19th-century cast iron balusters.