The estate comprises some 300 acres (120 ha) of landscaped park with woods, lakes, lodges, a dower house, an orangery, a church, and a walled kitchen garden.

[7] Chippenham Lodge and its terrace walls and the northern gateway to Dodington Park are listed Grade II*.

[1] The Codrington family acquired the Dodington estate in the late 16th century, when it was home to a large gabled Elizabethan house and adjoining church.

From the north-west corner of the house, a curving conservatory acts as a covered approach to the church, which was also rebuilt by Wyatt.

A curved orangery with a black and white stone floor adjoins the west of the house, to which it is directly accessed by glass doors.

[3] The 1999 Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, described the placing of the curved orangery in relation to St Mary's church as a "perfect example of Regency picturesque".

[34] Dodington Park was opened to the public in the 1950s due to the increasing financial pressures on the Codrington family of maintaining the estate.

[36] An adventure playground for children, a carriage museum and a narrow-gauge railway had been built on the site to attract visitors by the 1970s.

The local council denied planning permission to build a pleasure park in 1982, with the decision costing the immediate loss of 20 staff.

[38][39] The Codrington archives which documented three generations of the family and their relationship with agriculture and slavery in the West Indies for two centuries were sold in the late 1970s.

[41] Dodington Park was sold in 1993 to Michael Percival Kent, a Bath based residential homes and commercial developer, for a negotiated price believed to be around £800,000.