Longdon, as it survives today, is a tantalising relic of a much larger house – the history of which is very poorly recorded. Of brick, with stone dressings, the present house is but the southern wing of a west-facing E-plan, late sixteenth-century house. Two storeyed and with gabled attics, the house sits on a stone plinth and has two huge chimney breasts which still remain, with diagonal stacks rising above. In spite of a reeded late-Georgian doorcase and a tripartite sashed window of similar date, the house still retains most of its mullioned and transomed windows.

Internally, too, the hall retains panelling contemporary with the exterior, and other fragmentary details such as the surviving top flight of the staircase which has slat balusters and moulded handrail, plaster strapwork and foliage emanating from vases, together with two plaster roundels with signs of the Zodiac in the ceiling of a first floor room. These remnants suggests a high status build and yet the history of the house is extraordinarily sketchy and even the nineteenth-century historians, such as Mrs Stackhouse Acton, failed to notice the house.

Prior to the Dissolution, Longdon-Upon-Tern was owned by the Lilleshall Abbey. It was acquired by Alice Bromley, who swiftly sold it on to James Leveson. James’ grandson, Sir Walter Leveson (1551–1602) sold his Longdon property, in 1589, to John Tayleur, whose family was already leasing the property. Tayleur, who had married Anna, the daughter of David Jenks, their son John, and also his son Creswell Tayleur (d. 1675) were all described as ‘of Longdon’, and so it might have been for John Tayleur senior that the sixteenth-century house was built.

The Tayleurs are said to have sold the majority of their Longdon property to Robert Phillips of Wellington in 1647 – perhaps in connection with their purchase of the now-lost Rodington Hall estate in that same year, from which they ultimately moved to Buntingsdale (q.v.).

Longdon, meanwhile, passed through the Phillips family to a daughter Anne, who, with her husband Henry Barnes, sold the estate in 1781 to the Howard or Hayward family, a London mercantile family with connections in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

By 1851 Longdon was owned by William Howard but occupied by Henry Stormont, the house having presumably been truncated some time before that. In 1906 the house remained the property of the Howard family and was occupied by R.M. Williams.