[2] The oldest surviving part of the present house dates from 1595,[3] when it was built for Thomas Dod.

This was commissioned by Sir Philip de Grey Egerton of Oulton Park as a dower house.

[5] It was purchased by Malcolm Walker, owner of the Iceland Food Store Chain, in 1985 for £750,000,[6] and re-modelled and extended for him by The Carnell Green Partnership in 1987–88.

[1] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described it as being "an ornate gabled black and white house".

It is dated 1873, is a timber-framed building on a brick plinth and was designed by John Douglas.

[10] In the garden is a structure cut into a cliff and partly lined with blocks of sandstone.