A previous building on the site was constructed about 1500, and its later owners included Thomas Herbert and Henry Swinburne.

William Turner bought it in 1723, and largely demolished it, only a single passageway surviving.

The new house was of three storeys and seven bays, with a stucco front, lined to resemble stonework, while the rear is of brick.

[1][2] In the 19th century, a new mansard roof was added, as was a two-storey semicircular bay to the rear.

From the original fittings, several fireplaces survive, as does much of the decoration of the left-hand front room on the ground floor.