The current owner is Elizabeth Gass who has sold some of the surrounding parkland to Hinkley Point Power station.

The house was considered to be in the Lilstock parish in 1498 when John Verney, a descendant of Russel, paid a fine for his support of Perkin Warbeck.

[3] Around 1473 a licence was granted by the king to William Verney to surround the house with a wall and seven round towers.

In the late 18th and early 19th century Sir John Acland made further changes which are believed to have been designed by Richard Carver.

[5] In 1967 Elizabeth Gass inherited from an uncle the family's ancestral seat, and gave up her teaching career to concentrate on managing the estate which came with it.

The land was the part of her Fairfield estate lying immediately to the west of the Hinkley Point power station and was earmarked for the development of a wind farm.

[10] The site is now (2018) being used for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C.[7] Parts of the two-storey house still have fabric from the 12th-century building, but most of it dates from around 1589, with the south front being remodelled in the late 18th century.

[13] The grounds included a short canal which was separated from the house by the main road from Stogursey to Stringston.