A Tudor house originally stood on the site, the home of the Kemeys family.

[1] In 1809, Colthurst Bateman (1780-1859) married Jane Sarah Kemeys Gardener-Kemeys, heiress to Bertholey, and they built a new house on the site.

This has been attributed to George Vaughan Maddox of Monmouth, a prominent local architect.

[5] John Newman suggests that, had Bertholey survived, it would have been "one of the outstanding Neoclassical buildings in the county.

[6][7] Three estate buildings are listed, all at grade II, including elements of the original house, which were used as a farmhouse after 1830,[8] the stables,[9] and a dovecote.