In 1551 the estate was sold to the Dixwell family and a moated manor house was built on the monastic remains.
On the death of Sir William Dixwell in 1757 the estate passed to his nephew William Dixwell Grimes, whose son Abraham Grimes in 1787 replaced the old manor house with the present house built to designs by architect Samuel Wyatt.
The two-storey sandstone house has an interesting entrance front, the central three bays being bowed to full height.
From 1948 to 1968, Coton House served as a hostel for apprentices and students employed by a nearby Rugby industrial company (initially BTH which was part of the AEI group, and which was taken over by GEC in 1967).
[3] Coton House was bought by the Royal Mail in 1970, and used as its management training centre.