[1] Harvington's moat and artificial island can be traced back to the 13th century, older than the bulk of the 14th-century building work that survives behind a layer of bricks.

[2] After his death, the estate was passed into the hands of the 11th Earl of Warwick and, in 1529, was sold to a wealthy lawyer, Sir John Pakington.

[2] Though the Hall's scale is large in the present day, it is currently only about half of its original size as two additional wings were demolished in around 1700.

[3] In 1923, Mrs Ellen Grant Ferris (1870–1955) purchased and gave Harvington Hall to the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

In 2001 a moatside garden was replanted, including medicinal herbs mentioned in Elizabethan letters from John Halsey to Elizabeth Pakington at Little Malvern Court in Worcestershire.