Designed by the architect Robert Kerr in 1862–68, it is a Grade II listed building.

[2] The actress Joyce Grenfell was related to the family by marriage and often visited the house.

Accounts of her time there are described in her autobiography “Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure”.

In 2008, following the collapse of the CHA, Greathed Manor was converted to a private nursing home, and is currently operated by Pressbeau Ltd.[4][5] Kerr was an influential mid-Victorian architect who wrote The Gentleman's House - Or, How To Plan English Residences, From The Parsonage To The Palace, published in 1864.

[6] Kerr's influence was greater than his talent; the architectural critic Ian Nairn described Greathed as; "over-confident, making no concessions to the landscape or anything else, without any (...) artistic sincerity, an extreme example of a justly neglected type".