In 2013, planning permission was sought to return the building to residential use[3] after the purchase of the property by former England and Yorkshire cricketer, Geoffrey Boycott.

[3][4] In 2019, the property was listed for sale by Boycott because he and his wife Rachel planned to move to the Cheshire area where their daughter was residing.

A report at that time indicated that the property consisted of four elements, each with its own entrance: "the main house, the west wing, the cottage and the flat".

Features included 11 bedrooms, several reception rooms and a huge eat-in kitchen.

[5] The house has two storeys and is built out of squared magnesian limestone with five bays to the main part, it has a pitched slate roof.