Wingfield Manor is a ruined manor house left deserted since the 1770’s, some four miles (6.4 km) from the town of Alfreton in the English county of Derbyshire. There is a working farm that forms part of the old manor.
Construction of Wingfield Manor began in 1441 for Treasurer to Henry VI, Sir Ralph Cromwell, though the building was not completed until after his death when John Talbot, the second Earl of Shrewsbury, bought the property. His family maintained residence within the property for nearly two hundred years, and was lost only due to the Civil War after many failed sieges upon the manor.[3] After which, Parliament decreed that the manor be dismantled and allowed to fall into ruin, and parts were taken for building materials, leaving behind the present ruins.[4] It is also considered to house the first flushing toilet, built in 1596.