[1] It is built in brick with Bath stone dressings with a hipped tile roof and three facades.

Highfield (or Heckfield) House was occupied around that time by General Sir William Augustus Pitt, who improved the building and its associated parkland.

General Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, an army officer during the Peninsular war, and a personal friend of the Duke of Wellington.

War Cabinet member and former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain died of cancer in November 1940 whilst living in the house.

In the 1980s Highfield Park (as it was then called) was an Educational Services Center for the Digital Equipment Corporation, combining IT training with the country house experience.