The original Manor house was constructed in 1565-8 for Sir Thomas Eynns, the Secretary and Keeper of the Seal to the Council of the North; and his wife Elizabeth.

On the death of Thomas Hesketh in 1708, the Hall passed by marriage to the Yarburgh family, who lived in it for several generations.

Parts of the original manor house which were preserved include two staircase towers, the courtyard and the pendant stucco ceiling of the great hall.

[1] She had married George William Bateson in 1862 and he then assumed in 1876 the additional surname of de Yarburgh by Royal licence.

At the outbreak of the Second World War the house was vacated by the family who allowed it to be taken over by the Royal Air Force as the headquarters of No.

[7] The Quiet place consists of an enclosed Garden Room with a two-story gazebo in the Georgian style and an orangery.