It has had a number of notable owners including Valentine Wyndham-Quin, son of Windham Wyndham-Quin, the Baroness Howard de Walden and Lord Goff of Chieveley.

The house was built around 1716, identifiable by dates on the rainwater heads.

[2] At the time of its construction the occupants are recorded as a gentleman, his four children, and six servants.

[4] Pevsner describes Chieveley as a "compact hipped roofed dolls' house of red brick".

[5] The current owners created a garden to the designs of Arne Maynard.