[3] The village is made up of a few cottages built to provide accommodation for the workers on the near-by Wolterton Estate, which was once the family seat of the younger brother of the Prime Minister, Robert Walpole.

[4] These flints represent the use of fire by the early inhabitants of the area for the purposes of heating water for cooking and washing.

Discoveries by metal detectors of a copper alloy adza and an axe head, along with pottery shreds are more evidence of activity here in this period.

In these areas finds include Roman pottery, coins and casting waste, dolphin brooches, a spindle whorl, staff ferrule and part of an iron key.

[6] A white marble cartouche with cherub heads at the corners is to Henry Spelman,[6] a soldier, who died in Calcutta in the Bengal.

[8] Constructed from red brick with stone dressing the building stands in the form of a block of seven by three bays.

The elevations are plain without decoration with the plan of the house being of triple pile and is an early example of the palladian standard.