Wilford House

Wilford House, formerly known as Wilford Hall, is a country house built in 1781, now serving as offices. It was designed by William Henderson of Loughborough and constructed by Samuel Stretton. The building features red brick with ashlar and stucco dressings, and hipped slate roofs, with four renewed external stacks at the corners.

The exterior includes a plinth, a first-floor band, a dentillated eaves cornice, and a renewed parapet. The windows are glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches, and the house has three storeys with a five-window range and a square plan. The central doorway is framed by an Adam style stucco surround and cornice, featuring a fielded six-panel door with sidelights and a fanlight. On either side of the entrance, there are two windows, and above, five windows in diminishing courses. To the left, there is a late 20th-century glazed link and addition that is two storeys high. The right return has projecting end bays with blank spaces, while the centre features three windows on each floor, with the ground floor centre window being round-arched. The rear of the house has regular fenestration, with two larger sashes to the left on the ground floor, followed by a recessed bay and the 19th-century addition, which has a two-window range.

Inside, the entrance hall and stairwell are adorned with corn-husk friezes with medallions and dentillated cornices. The stairwell includes wall panels and an oval skylight, along with a stone cantilever dogleg stair that has winders at the foot, a wrought-iron balustrade, and a ramped scrolled handrail. Other rooms feature moulded cornices and six-panel doors.