[3] As part of the remodelling, Ionides introduced many original 18th century features salvaged from other properties including West Harling Hall in Norfolk and Chesterfield House, off Park Lane, London.

[3] During the Second World War, the Royal Society of Arts relocated its valuable library of books and records to Buxted Park for safekeeping.

[5] A garden wing and swimming pool were added during the 1960s by Kenneth Shipman, then owner of the Twickenham Film Studios, whose celebrity friends including Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando and Dudley Moore visited the house after it was opened as a health hydro in 1966.

[3] The property was sold in 1971 to Sheik Ziad Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi, who at the time was the president of the United Arab Emirates.

[3][4] The SSSI was notified in 1989 due to its value as an old deer park consisting of a variety of unimproved grassland communities with parkland trees which support a large invertebrate population.