The site originally contained a manor house, which was occupied by the Bullock family from the early 13th century.

[1] This was acquired by Edmund Standen in 1589 and passed to his son, William Standen, who rebuilt the house in the Jacobean style in 1603;[1] a stable block was added in 1654.

[2] The manor house was sold to Pelsant Reeves, a Master in Chancery, in 1730 and it remained in the Reeves family until a descendant, George Dawson, demolished it in 1832.

[1] George Dawson commissioned a new hall in 1837 but sold it to Sir John Conroy, Controller of the Household of the Duchess of Kent, in 1842.

[3] During the Second World War, the hall was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force.