Wadley House

Wadley House is a Grade II listed Palladian stone house built in 1768, with parts dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. It features stone tiled roofs and was constructed for Charles Pye. The south front is two-storey with a parapet, hipped valley roof, and corniced ashlar stacks. The façade has a severe seven-window arrangement, made of coursed rubble with flush ashlar quoins and window surrounds. There is a moulded stone cornice and a simple architrave above the central first-floor window, which has a panel below. The entrance is marked by a fine central pedimented Roman Doric doorcase, complete with half-columns and triglyphs in the frieze, and a round arched doorway with a moulded arch and pilaster reveals. The end elevations have four windows each, and there is a rear hipped roof staircase block with a cavetto eaves cornice, along with a modern rear porch.

Inside, the house was remodelled around 1910 in a neo-Georgian style. The rear range, dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, is T-shaped with steep pitched roofs and renewed brick stacks, including two at the eaves on the west side, one on the ridge, and another on the north cross range. The west side has a three-window range featuring triple mullioned windows with arched heads on the ground floor, a central three-light mullioned window above, and flanking two-light windows with hoodmoulds and dogshead label stops on the north side. A door on the south face of the cross wing has been altered to a two-light mullioned window. The north face of the cross wing has been partly rebuilt in brick and has leaded light casements. The east end features a three-light stone mullioned window with arched heads and a hoodmould. There is also a small rubble stone rear building with a square ventilating turret on a hipped roof, which has two-light mullioned windows on the north and east sides. Wadley was the seat of the Unton family in the 16th century and was visited by Queen Elizabeth in 1574 and James I in 1603.