The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Traces of an early 18th-century formal layout, including a wilderness, surrounding a country seat set in 18th-century parkland.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Waldershare Park lies about 10 kilometres to the north-west of Dover, on the north-west side of the main A256, Dover to Sandwich road. The roughly 400 hectare site occupies a rural location bounded to the north by Kennel Hill, to the west by Coldred Road, to the south-west by Singledge Lane, and to the east and south-east by farmland beyond a shelter belt of beech. Waldershare House stands towards the bottom of the easternmost of two parallel valleys which run north to south through the site, a position which offers no extensive views.

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT

The Waldershare estate was purchased by Sir Henry Furness in 1705. The red-brick house, whose design has been attributed to William Talman (Harris 1719) had been built by 1712 and the surrounding formal grounds laid out as shown in a view by J Kip published in 1719 (Harris). The estate passed by marriage to Francis, first Earl Guildford in the mid-18th century and has remained with this family although during the 20th century the mansion was sold and divided into flats. The house was gutted by fire in 1913 and restored by Sir Reginald Blomfield. The site remains (2001) in divided private ownership.