The style is Palladian although with earlier Carolean echoes which led Pevsner to describe it as "decidedly conservative for its date".

[1] By descent, the estate passed to the Severne family who owned the house until the end of the 19th century.

[6] Since that time, the Heseltines have developed the house and the estate, most notably by the planting of an important arboretum.

[2] Nikolaus Pevsner, in his Buildings of England, notes that the house is "of fine quality but decidedly conservative for its date".

[11] Both he, and Historic England suggest that the style is more of the 1650s–1680s, rather than that fashionable at the time of the house's construction in the mid-18th century.

[12] A water tank, with a date of 1765 and bearing the initials MW,[13] and a 19th-century pump in the grounds have their own Grade II listings.

[14] Ancillary estate buildings also have Grade II listings, including the Home and Manor farmhouses.