The famous Elizabethan poet, George Puttenham, lived at Herriard House but also had a farm at Upton Grey.

[2] Charles Holme purchased several houses and a great deal of the surrounding land in Upton Grey.

Holme then commissioned a local architect Ernest Newton to refurbish it, keeping many of the original timbers.

Today's Edwardian decoration encloses oak rooms, a 16th-century staircase and original roof timbers.

[3] It was the childhood home of George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing and his brother, the naturalist Philip Sclater, and was sold in c1945 to Sir Edmund Stockdale, 1st Baronet.