The current house at Sidbury is an early twentieth-century one, with an Arts and Crafts feel – its long south-east facing garden front crowned by gabled, tiled roofs and looking out over formal gardens to the park beyond. Built on a new site, the entrance front faces north-west and is approached from the village along a newly-planted avenue that opens into the park, giving glimpses of the house set against a wooded backdrop. Sidbury is based upon a design by Herbert Stanley-Barrett and C.H. Driver of 1903 but which was built without their direct overview.

The house replaced an earlier one that is said to have been burned down in the eighteenth century. The only significant vestige of the house is the stable range to the south of the present Hall Farmhouse. This is a two-storeyed, gable-ended brick building with stone angle quoins and a handsome pedimented and shouldered stone doorcase at its centre.

The lost earlier house had armorial glass depicting the heraldry of the Purslow family, the owners of the house and estate from at least 1469. In the seventeenth century, Sir Robert Purslow of Sidbury served as High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1609. Sir Robert’s eventual successor in the estate, Rowland Purslow (d. 1651) left a widow, Anne (d. 1677), whose daughter Anne – from an earlier marriage to George Lea – became the heiress of the estate. The younger Anne married Richard Cresswell (1620–1708) and so conveyed Sidbury to that family. Richard Cresswell was a Cavalier at the time of the Civil Wars, having previously served as a page to Charles I and went on to become Sheriff of Shropshire in 1670. He and Anne had two sons, Purslow (1659-c. 1682) and Richard (1662–1717). Richard, who eventually succeeded his father at Sidbury, married Margaret Moreton and their eldest son, another Richard (1688–1773), made a marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Estcourt and his wife Mary Corbet. The Estcourt-Cresswell marriage brought Pinkney Park at Malmesbury in Wiltshire to the family and this grander seat rather eclipsed Sidbury. Richard and Elizabeth’s son, Thomas Estcourt Cresswell (1712–88), caused considerable controversy by his Fleet marriage to his cousin Elizabeth Scrope in 1742, followed by a marriage to the heiress Anne Warneford in 1746. He faced accusations not only of bigamy but also in having attempted to murder both women.