Waldridge Manor

Waldridge Manor is a house dating to the late 16th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the early 17th century and a modern wing added in 1925. The house is timber framed with brick infill, with a distinctive herring bone pattern to the principal north-west front. The south-west elevations, and the south-east wing, are brick with stone-framed windows, while the 1925 wing is brick. The roofs are covered in old tiles.

The original house comprised two bays, and was later remodelled with a projecting right-hand wing and a rear wing, creating a letter-T shaped plan. The house is two storeys high, with the wing containing an attic. The north-west front features an entrance in a lean-to structure on the left, which incorporates 18th-century brickwork but is largely from 1925. Ground-floor windows are modern leaded casements; the cross-wing bay has a shallow oriel, and the left side a tile-roofed bay, both of five lights. First-floor windows are ovolo-mullioned and transomed, also of five lights, with shallow oriels supported by brackets featuring stylized foliage carving. The cross-wing has a single gable with a strapwork carved centre post. There is a 3-light attic casement. A massive central stack has small panels to the main sides, a moulded cornice, and six diagonally set flues with moulded, offset caps. The south-west elevation features a 3-light moulded mullioned and transomed leaded casement in a stone frame to the gable end of the main range, with two lights to the ground and first floor, and a 2-light mullioned window with a similarly moulded frame. The south-east wing also has a mullioned and transomed stone-framed window of the same design. The inner sides of windows have hollow-chamfered mouldings. The 1925 wing contains casement windows, a stack in a 17th-century style with four diagonally set flues, and a single diagonal flue to the south-east gable, bearing a shield with the date 1925. The rear elevation has a modern infill bay, brick and tile hung.

The interior features much exposed timber framing, along with straight braces to roof purlins and tie beams. The staircase has 17th-century newels on the first floor, with finials, and some lattice work below the handrail. On the second floor is a chamfered and stopped doorframe into a 17th-century addition. Further interior details include chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, batten doors, an inglenook to the left-hand ground-floor room with a chamfered firelintel, and 17th-century oak panelling in a first-floor room. The house was once the residence of Sir Richard Ingoldsby, one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I.