The house, which is now Durham County Council's The Story museum, is a Grade II listed building.

[1] The surviving parkland associated with the house is including in Durham County Council's Local List of Historic Parks, Gardens and Designed Landscapes.

[3] The Rev Percival Spearman Wilkinson commissioned Phillip Wyatt to expand the house in the Georgian style in 1830.

[4] In August 2014 Banks Group sold part of the site to Durham University who had ambitions to use it for accommodation for 1,000 students.

[12] The project, which envisaged Banks Group transferring the manor house to the council for a nominal sum, was granted planning consent in September 2020.