[1] The house has a 16th and 17th-century U-shaped core formed by the hall range and two flanking wings enclosing a south facing main courtyard.

A further extension c.1770 created a north-west wing, when at the same time the south front was remodelled in the Gothic style.

It is constructed in 3 storeys of rough cast bricks with a hipped slate roof and stands in an estate of some 6,500 acres of park and farmland.

The Enville estate was acquired in the 15th century by the Grey family of Bradgate Park in Leicestershire.

Nevertheless the hall was rebuilt and passed to Katherine's son John Foley Grey and in turn to his daughter Eileen, who had married the Earl of Harrington.