The house and manor church (14th century, restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott) were pillaged by the Jacobite forces as they marched south to Swarkstone Bridge in 1745.

[2] The house is a testament to the high level of education and competence that might be elicited from a well-trained Georgian craftsman.

The south and west wings were rebuilt 1953–60 to a sensitive Neo-Georgian design by Marshall Sisson.

[3][4] A feature of the house is the Grade II* wrought iron inner gateway (1756) with armorial overthrow, by master smith Benjamin Yates, a pupil of Robert Bakewell,[5] and the outer gates, also Grade II*, by Bakewell himself.

Maud Okeover married Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, a successful brewer of Gateacre, Liverpool (see Walker-Okeover baronets), who in 1884 had purchased Osmaston Manor in nearby Derbyshire.