Over the last 100 years the house fell into ruins, was vandalized and then restored.
The present owner, horticulturalist Martin Lane Fox, acquired the house in 1997 and has considerably remodelled the garden.
[2] The two-storey building was first listed in 1959 and is described by Historic England as a "countryhouse".
It has brick walls, with some burnt header decoration, on a stone plinth.
The roofs are tiled with stone eaves courses and coped gables.