[2] It is one of the few UK landed estates that has passed only by inheritance and marriage since the Conquest, when William the Conqueror’s ally Henry de Ferrers was granted it in the 11th century.

The present house was built in about 1739 for his descendant German Pole, probably by architect William Smith the Younger.

[1] The previous building, located in the hollow towards the village of Radbourne, supposedly was able to sleep 100 people in beds and have stabling for 200 horses.

The entrance front has seven bays, the central three of which slightly project and crowned with a stone carved pediment bearing the Pole family arms.

Finally, in August 1866 William Chandos-Pole became vicar, whose patrons were John Yarde Buller, Edward Levett and Rev.