[1] Built in the early 1700s by an unknown architect for Judge Charles Coxe, with one wing added in 1931 by Morley Horder, the small house forms a perfect square of 46 feet (14 m) on each side, with sash windows, tall chimneys, hipped roofs and gate piers and railings.

It has been praised by architectural historian Mark Girouard as perfectly exemplifying the early 18th-century formal house in miniature.

He sold it to Mr Corbett Woodall, who commissioned architect Peter Morley Horder to recondition the house, installing bathrooms and planting the avenue of lime trees to the south.

[4] In 1956–57, Frederick Nettlefold, with Jeremy Benson as his architect, lifted and completely rebuilt the roof in strict accordance with the original plan, after an 1848 inaccurate re-roof.

[citation needed] Other members of the British royal family also lived near Prince and Princess Michael at Nether Lypiatt.

According to The Sunday Times, it was purchased by the businessman and Labour life peer Lord Drayson for £5.75 million.

[7][8] For a review of Nether Lypiatt Manor (with 27 photographs) see Christopher Hussey in Country Life, 19 and 26 May 1934, and for Morley Horder's restorations in particular, see R. Randal Phillips in idem, 24 March and 7 April 1923; see also Osbert Sitwell, Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations and Craftsmen (London 1950), pp.