UFFORD PLACE, SITUATED THREE MILES NORTH OF WOODBRIDGE, stood in parkland, which, since the demolition of the house, has become the site of a housing development, a hotel and a golf course. Unlike many country houses, it was never the seat of the lord of the manor, there having been another hall elsewhere in the parish.

The house is said to have been the property of the Hammond family in the late 1620s and to have been rebuilt by William Hammond, who is recorded as having a house with six hearths in 1674. By the fourth decade of the eighteenth century it was owned by Samuel Thompson, who married Anne, a daughter of Sir Charles Blois, first baronet. It descended to their daughter, also Anne, who married Reginald Brooke. Ufford was to remain in the ownership of the Brooke and Blois families until the middle of the twentieth century, although its descent in those families was somewhat complex. Reginald and Anne Brooke's son, Francis Capper Brooke, who died in 1886 and his son (by his second marriage), Edward, owned the estate for over eighty years, and it was during their tenure that Ufford Place was considerably enlarged. Francis Capper Brooke was clearly concerned that his estate should eventually pass to male members of his family, and he provided that, although the estate passed on Edward's death to his sister Constance, it was thereafter (if he had no male descendants) to be inherited by the heir male of Sir Thomas Brook, who had died in 1418, failing whom to the second and succeeding sons of Sir John Blois, eighth baronet of Cockfield. This last provision took effect, and the estate passed in 1930 to Eustace Steuart Blois, who took the name of Brooke on inheriting Ufford.