sweeping views of the countryside and vistas to and from Oran Park to neighbouring colonial estates in the Cowpastures district. The relationship between the house, its formal gardens and wider landscape remains discernible. The original driveway to Camden Valley Way is partially discernible by the remnant vegetation. Oran Park was originally constructed in the Victorian Italianate style and, since undergoing significant modifications, has been adapted to the Inter-War Georgian Revival style. The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. With a long held use as a private residence, the social significance of Oran Park is limited. However, Oran Park is widely recognised as an early cultural landscape and has some social significance for the greater Camden district (once the Cowpastures). The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. There is potential for archaeological studies to be undertaken on the Oran Park property. Although the pastoral and agricultural use of the land may have disturbed likely archaeological evidence, analysis of the landscape could reveal further information about how the land was laid out and used over time. There is also potential for archaeological evidence to be discovered in core areas immediately surrounding Oran Park house and the coach house that could reveal further information about the construction of the buildings and later works carried out on the property. The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. Oran Park is an early cultural landscape of the Cowpastures district. While not a rare example, it is representative of colonial country estates of the 19th century. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales. Oran Park is of state heritage significance as a representative example of a mid-19th century cultural estate in the Cowpastures district. Established in the 1830s, Oran Park is a remnant country estate that reflects the landscape design principles that were practised in England at the time. The siting of an imposing mansion-style house on a dominant natural hilltop or ridgeline was a British design type used throughout the Cowpastures district during the early to mid-19th century. With an extended driveway, entranceway and carriage loop, the