[3] The estate holds the record for the biggest grouse bag in a day; when on 12 August 1915, 2,929 birds were shot by eight guns (shooters).

[4] In 1980 the Abbeystead Estate, totalling 18,000 acres (73 km2) and including the house, was bought by a trust relating to the family of the Duke of Westminster.

The façade of the north (entrance) front is irregular, and consists of five bays, three of which project forward and are surmounted by gables of different sizes with ball finials.

The front also includes mullioned and transomed windows, a dormer, and a pair of round-headed arches in ground floor of the right bay.

The outer doorway of the porch has a Tudor arch with the Molyneux arms carved above; it is flanked by small single-storey turrets.

[10] York Lodge stands 0.5 miles (1 km) to the east on the road to Dunsop Bridge[2] and is also listed Grade II.