The house has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.

It included building walls around a court, adding a service wing, "a stall for 24 cattle, a farm baliff's house, a brewhouse" and modern plumbing, with a lead pipe water supply.

Within the original grounds are a coachhouse,[15] cottage,[16] granary,[17] southwest lodge,[18] stables[19] summerhouse[20] and a number of modern follies.

[22] In the early 18th century, William Player created gardens a la française with geometric plantings with courts, fountains and three axes in the 300 acres surrounding the house.

At the height of the landscape garden movement, Henry Hobhouse had Player's strict geometry cut with picturesque vistas and rolling hills.

In 2013, the property was sold to South Africans, Karen Roos and her billionaire husband Koos Bekker, who converted the house into a luxury hotel, and the grounds into the attraction, The Newt in Somerset, which opened in 2019.