Longdon Hall

Longdon Hall is a large house dating from the 16th century, built on an earlier core. It features a timber-framed structure with plaster and painted brick panels, topped with plain tile roofs, including a prominent ridge stalk towards the south end. The main range likely served as a former open hall, flanked by twin-gabled wings on the east front. The building has been renewed with mullioned windows throughout.

The east front has a recessed center with two three-light upper windows and modern mullion and transom windows below. The left wing features a renewed chimney in the valley and an 18th-century pedimented wooden doorcase in the inner angle. The inner gable includes a small panel ground floor window and first-floor sash windows, while the outer gable has a six-light attic window and small three-light first-floor windows, all supported by heavy square framing with braces to the tie-beam.

The right wing's inner gable houses the staircase, with two-light windows on each floor. The wider outer gable above the cellar features two and three-light ground floor windows and a three-light first-floor window, also with heavy square framing. The west front has gables at each end and a long central range, with a massive rubble stone and brick outside stack that has three diagonal shafts. It includes a moulded jetty beam, one carved ground floor upright, a blocked Tudor-arched doorway, and one remaining pendant finial. There is one window range to the left of the chimney and two to the right. The right gable shows exposed timber framing, while the left gable is plastered with visible corner posts and a tie-beam.

Inside, there is a fine 17th-century open well staircase with twisted balusters and a panelled 17th-century room in the ground floor northwest corner. The central section features massive inserted beams. Longdon Hall was owned by the Parker family from at least the mid-16th century until 1901 and was known as the White House in the 18th and 19th centuries.