At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the estate belonged to William Pennyman, Esq.

When he died, in 1718, buried at Eston Church, his daughters Elizabeth and Joanna, married two brothers – Rev.

[2] The other brother, Captain Matthew Consett, took the part of the manor with the ancient Hall.

[3] The Hall with a moiety of the estate was purchased in 1748, by Ralph Jackson, on the death of Captain Consett and in 1790 he common fields around it were enclosed to become parkland for the mansion.

It descended through the Jackson family, in the late 1880s, to Major Charles Ward-Jackson M.P., who was lord of the manor, and who died in 1930.