[2] The present house was built c.1795 in the style of James Wyatt;[2] it has two storeys, faced in ashlar, with a two-story bow on the front (west) elevation.

In 1086 a small settlement of twelve households was recorded at Salthorp in Domesday Book.

[3] Until the 14th century the manor was held together with the Castle Combe estates.

Later it passed through many hands including Thomas Bennet (1592–1670), a lawyer; and Peter Legh of Lyme Park (formerly of Bank Hall, Bretherton, Lancashire), who married Martha Bennet.

His daughter Elizabeth Legh, widow of Anthony Keck (c.1740–1782), inherited the hall and their daughter married into the Calley family of Burderop Park, Wiltshire.