Audley End House

Audley End House
Audley End House in 2020
Type	Prodigy house
Location	Saffron Walden
Coordinates	52°01′15″N 00°13′14″E / 52.02083°N 0.22056°E / 52.02083; 0.22056
OS grid reference	TL524381
Area	Essex
Built	17th century
Architectural style(s)	Jacobean
Owner	English Heritage
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	Audley End House
Designated	1 November 1972
Reference no.	1196114
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens
Official name	Audley End
Designated	1 July 1987
Reference no.	1000312
Location of Audley End House in Essex

Audley End House is a largely early 17th-century country house outside Saffron Walden, Essex, England. It is a prodigy house, known as one of the finest Jacobean houses in England.

Audley End is now one-third of its original size, but is still large, with much to enjoy in its architectural features and varied collections. The house shares some similarities with Hatfield House, except that it is stone-clad as opposed to brick.^[1] It is currently in the stewardship of English Heritage but long remained the family seat of the Barons Braybrooke, heirs to the estate of whom retain a portion of the contents of the house, the estate, and the right to repurchase as an incorporeal hereditament.^[2] Audley End railway station is named after the house.