The house reflects the many changes and styles of architecture covering the last 300 years and is surrounded by gardens and an estate which includes specimen trees.

In the early 18th century that house was demolished and parts of it, including the porch, incorporated into the current building.

[2] Gorges descendant John Codrington, a local member of parliament further developed the house and estate in the 1720s and 1730s.

He became bankrupt and in 1800 the Wraxall estate was sold at auction for £28,500 to Philip Prothero of Over, Gloucestershire, however it was eventually purchased by Sir John Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court and used by members of his family.

The nine bay front of the house has a central porch at the doorway which has ionic columns supporting a frieze and moulded cornice.