The present building was commissioned in 1842 by Anthony Peacock Willson, a local banker, on his acquiring the Rauceby estate in 1842.

[5] Following the death of Willson, and of his four unmarried and childless sons, the house was inherited in 1931 by a distant relative, John Cracroft-Amcotts.

[1] South Rauceby Hall remains in the ownership of the Cracroft-Amcotts family and is not open to the public.

[7] Nicholas Antram, in his 2002 revised volume Lincolnshire, in the Pevsner Buildings of England series, describes the architectural style of South Rauceby as Tudor Gothic, and notes that the hall lacks the Baroque elements of Revesby Abbey and Stoke Rochford Hall.

South Rauceby Hall is a Grade II listed building[8] as is the entrance lodge, with its gates and railings.