The house was built for James Standerwick.
[1] It was inherited by his daughter Elizabeth Standerwick, who married, Sir Thomas Richard Swinnerton Dyer, 7th Baronet (1768–1838).
[1] When he died, she remarried in 1839, to Baron Friedrich von Zandt of Würzburg.
[1] The North Lodge is listed Grade II.
[2] London's Ovington Square is named after the estate.