[3] Parts of the rear of the house probably date from the first building of c.1658, and in the hall there is re-used panelling of the same era.
[1] Constructed of rendered brick, with a seven-bay east front,[3] the house sits in parkland, with its own lake.
In 1830, 365 Roman coins known as the Baynton Hoard were dug up in the grounds,[4] 101 of which are now kept in the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes.
John Long sold the property in 1842, and it subsequently passed to Simon Watson Taylor of Erlestoke, from whose heirs it was bought by G. S. H. Pearson about 1915.
[3] The house was advertised for sale by public auction at the Red Lion, Salisbury, on 28 July 1966, with sixteen acres of grounds.