Longridge Tower

Longridge Tower is a country house, now a school, built around 1876 by architects J.C. and C.A. Buckler for Sir Hubert Jerningham. The building is constructed of sandstone ashlar and is designed in the Tudor style. It features a large mansion with an irregular plan, consisting of two storeys and a three-storey tower on the right. The facade is asymmetric and freely composed with seven bays. The fourth bay includes a large rib-vaulted porte-cochere with multi-moulded Tudor arches, battlements, and octagonal pinnacles at the corners topped with ogee caps. Above this, there is a large oriel window with mullions and transoms, supported by a moulded corbel. This bay projects and is embattled, featuring corbelled-out higher embattled turrets. The other bays have large mullioned-and-transomed windows, while the narrow bays flanking the entrance have tall ground-floor windows with two transoms. The left bay has an embattled single-storey bay window with a well-carved heraldic crest above it. The first-floor string course and cornice are located below a moulded parapet with octagonal angle turrets, some of which are embattled and serve as chimneys. The recessed tower on the right return has large, complex buttresses and small windows, with the Jerningham crest displayed on the first floor. There are very large service wings at the rear.

Inside, the entrance hall features an imperial staircase with twisted wrought-iron balusters and twisted stone newels. The stone centerpiece has a Tudor arch beneath it, with a stone balustrade above that includes trefoiled arches. The great hall is notable for its two large Tudor arches and a false hammer-beam roof adorned with grotesque heads at the ends of the beams.