After the estate had been sold off in small lots and the mansion had suffered years of neglect, it was demolished and replaced by a smaller house in the late 18th century.
[1] At the time it was demolished a record of this family appeared on an oaken beam, to the following effect, "soli deo honor et gloria Jhon Beer, in the yer of our Loyd mcccccxxxviii.
[b] On the pulling down of the gate-house, a part of the materials, with some of the letters of the inscription, were purchased by an inhabitant of Horton Kirby, and affixed on the walls of his house, where they were still to be seen in 1844.
She remarried to a Mr. Shardlow, and upon her death c. 1640 bequeathed it to her kinsman Thomas Brown, whose daughter and sole heir Katherine, annexed it to the patrimony of Robert Blague, one of the Barons of the Exchequer.
His eldest son Henry inherited Horsmans Place but died two years later, and the estate passed to his brother Nicholas.
There was a court case between two relatives of the last deceased owner, Thomas Cockshutt and John Twisleton (died 1763) over possession of Horsmans Place.
On a partition of the estates, Horsmans Place fell to the share of the second son, Thomas, a colonel in the guards, afterwards Lord Saye and Sele.
[d] Richard Leigh the younger waited until his mother vacated the premises in 1780, and then while it was advertised to be sold, let the unoccupied mansion fall into a dilapidated state.
When Wiseman left, Storey moved back in, but finding the premises much too large and greatly dilapidated, he obtained Mr. Leigh's consent to replace the mansion with a house of smaller dimensions better adapted for his business.