Between the 1860s and the end of the 19th century the owner of the hall, Rowland Egerton-Warburton, commissioned the restoration of existing buildings in the village and the construction of new ones.
To this end he employed architects working in the Vernacular Revival style, including John Douglas, Edmund Kirby, and William Eden Nesfield.
[2] Douglas' biographer Edward Hubbard states that Egerton-Warburton had a "campaign to restore the village and render it picturesque in Victorian eyes".
[6] The other Grade I listed building is Belmont Hall, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the village.
These are basically timber-framed buildings, some incorporating crucks, but most have since been recased, wholly or partly, in brick.