This creates a U-shaped plan around a courtyard which faces onto a garden leading to the River Thames.

[2] The south wing has a barrel-vaulted cellar beneath it and a hall and gallery including 15th-century woodwork.

His great-grandson Richard Brunse passed possessions to his daughter Agnes, wife of William Hulse.

[3] In 1886 the Manor House was purchased[4] by James Lloyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage who gave the property to the grandson of the 25th Earl of Crawford, Colonel Harry Lindsay, and his wife in 1895.

[4] The Manor was purchased from the Lindsay family in 1945 by newspaper owner David Astor,[6] who lived there until his death in 2001.