Edgeworth Manor

Edgeworth Manor is a large country house that combines Tudor fragments—particularly visible in the cellar—with substantial late 17th-century work and significant 19th-century additions and remodelling. The mid-19th-century south range was remodelled by Capel N. Tripp in 1882, and the house was further enlarged and remodelled by Sir Ernest George in 1899.

The building is constructed of coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings, ashlar chimneys and frontispiece, and a stone slate roof. The original 17th-century house comprises two storeys with basement and attic, planned around a central staircase. The 19th-century south range contains two rooms, while the 19th-century north wing has since been demolished. The 19th-century west range incorporates a large hall with a further staircase. The west and south facades display Tudor revival styling, which continues around to part of the east front.

The west front features a two-storey gabled porch with attic that projects forward of the gable end of the south range. To the left is a four-window hall elevation with two attic gables. Windows throughout are generally mullioned or mullioned and transomed with three-centred arched heads to each top light, fitted with leaded casements. Basement windows are two-light chamfered mullions with relieving arches. Roll-moulded parapet gables with open-work carved finials flank the porch gable. To the left of the porch is a chimney stack with paired diagonal shafts and moulded caps; to the right, the stack features pilaster moulding. The round-arched doorway has moulded architraves, imposts and keystone, flanked by fluted Doric pilasters with Doric entablature above incorporating a central carved coat-of-arms. The round-headed timber door has square framing, arched in head. Above is a nine-light mullioned and transomed staircase window flanked by Ionic pilasters. The cornice above is continuous across this front and incorporates a segmental pediment over the stair window with strapwork carving enrichment to the tympanum, flanked by obelisks in relief. A three-light window appears above with a slit vent over. The upper floor elevation to the left of the porch displays a continuous fenestration pattern: windows of two plus two lights with king mullion and lozenge decorated panels between.

The south front features two-window fenestration with a rectangular two-storey bay window to the left and an eaves-mounted chimney stack to the right. The bay contains a twelve-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor with continuous drip mould stepping over; above is a four-light with three-centred arched heads, repeated in the attic gable. The chimney stack features pilaster moulding and is flanked by ball finials on the parapet, with a pediment immediately below. Two cross windows to the upper floor have plain six-light mullioned and transomed fenestration, centrally positioned below.

Part of the east front displays Tudor revival styling: an attic gable end in the south-east corner with flat-roofed section to the right, linked by crenellated parapet. The attic has three-light windows with three-centred arched heads above two-light openings; the ground floor features tripartite fenestration with scrolled pediment. A casement with moulded architrave, keystone and bull-nosed sill appears to the right with a two-light above. The remainder of the east front is a 17th-century five-window, two-storey facade with coved eaves and ridge chimney stacks mounted on parapet end gables to north and south. A central doorway enters at half-level below the ground floor, reducing the window opening above. A flat timber porch hood on carved brackets shelters this entrance. Windows throughout have moulded architraves, keystones and bull-nosed sills, with continuous drip mould above the ground floor. Mixed fenestration includes leaded casements in timber cross windows, small-paned tall casements and eighteenth-century sashes with some glazing bars missing. Basement windows are two-light flat-faced recessed mullioned with relieving arches. Two roof dormers with segmental pediments complete this elevation. Single-storey service wings to the north are twentieth-century replacements for the former north wing.

The interior contains a late 17th-century panelled room on the east front with a carved entablature lintel to the fireplace featuring an eared architrave. The chimneypiece displays two carved floral panels, flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters with pulvinated frieze, and has shell hoods to apsed niches either side. Fielded panelling with bolection mouldings covers the walls throughout. A 17th-century timber newel post staircase adjoins this room, with ball finials to the newels and barleysugar balusters. A tunnel-vaulted room in the 19th-century south range features a plaster strapwork ceiling picked out in coloured paintwork. A further large 19th-century room has a Jacobean revival plaster ceiling and a French medieval hooded stone fireplace installed in the twentieth century.

A terrace to the south and east fronts has a retaining wall with offset buttresses topped by polyhedron finials, and an opening with square piers surmounted by sundials.

The medieval manor on this site was largely rebuilt in 1685 for Nathaniel Ridler. The late 17th-century house is now visible only from the east side. The house stands on a prominent site overlooking the deep wooded Frome valley. Associated structures include gates and gatescreen to the west, stables and coach house to the north-west, and two gateways in the park.