A detailed description of the building appears in the relevant entry on the English Heritage website[1] and is based on an external inspection of the structure.
However, there is evidence that the Manor House also contains earlier elements, as parts of a 15th-century solar measuring 4.9 by 6.5 meters have been identified within the fabric of the existing building and two reused molded stones may date from the 12th or 13th century.
[2] Raunds has a complicated manorial history, a number of different manors having been in existence within the parish.
Accounts of the descent of the manor appears in a number of sources, including the Victoria County History[3] A more recent study in 1992 by Wessex Archaeology, which discusses previous works and bases its own conclusions for the descent of Gage's Manor on extensive reference to original documentary sources.
However, the will of George Gage of Raunds, which was made in June 1557, does specifically refer to “the Manor place of Rauns which I now dwell in”.